Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sikkim football team


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The result was   keep. Fritzpoll (talk) 13:37, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Sikkim football team

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This doesn't seem to be a notable club as it only plays in the Santosh Trophy. The only external link there is broken. The other teams in the competition don't have pages, Sikkim has never won or even been runner-up in the Santosh Trophy. Spiderone (talk) 12:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment I did a quick Google search and found this but not much more: Spiderone (talk) 12:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Spiderone (talk) 12:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete blatant failure of WP:N, no proven notability. --Angelo (talk) 12:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no notability is present. GiantSnowman 12:46, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep following new evidence of notability from Kevin McE. GiantSnowman 10:41, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  -- - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 16:11, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - that other teams in the competition don't have pages (yet) is a poor argument. As a state football team, I think it is inherently notable — apparently there are only 31 teams playing in the Santosh trophy; surely then all of them are notable? (Yes, I know Santosh trophy doesn't include the football clubs, but still...) Shreevatsa (talk) 01:54, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment But this team hasn't played in a national cup or received any notable coverage. Spiderone (talk) 08:09, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 *  Provisional Keep If it is true that the Santosh Trophy "was the premier football competition in the country before ... 1996" (as per its article), then all teams participating in it would be noteworthy: reaching a final or any other stage would be irrelevant.  Also, if as a state representative team it selects from among players of the top echelon of the sport nationally for interstate competition, it would be noteworthy, but if, like the English county FA selections, the players are drawn from a long way down the pyramid, there would not be notability.  Kevin McE (talk) 10:11, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Additional comment: There does seem to be evidence that the event is of highest level within India:, , (the manager of the national team would not be bothered about it if it did not use main players),  (clubs such as Mahindra United, Churchill Brothers and top national division).  I would suggest that the reason there is an article for Sikkim but not for the other Santosh Trophy teams is because it was set up by an editor enthusiastic about articles of teams representing "nations" that are not sovereign states.  Kevin McE (talk) 10:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe keep A quick google search shows coverage from reliable sources in and outside of India. Since this is not a biography you could say that it meets Notability (organizations and companies) guidelines. Maybe the article should be moved into a user subpage until improved or someone can take a crack at including more information.Cptnono (talk) 12:36, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Unfortunately I'm very busy at the moment so can't back this up; you'll have to take me on trust here. I nominated a number of 'national' team articles for deletion a while back and nearly nominated this one, but after some research I found it definitely merited inclusion and had simply been mislabelled as a national rather than state side. I was of a similar opinion to Kevin, that if it was similar to a county FA team it needn't be included, but found a number of articles indicating that selected players came from the highest level. If anyone has the spare time I would suggest that state-level football (either globally or specific to India) would be a good project for improving and expanding. I would start with this article and Nagaland football team. Stu.W UK (talk) 22:21, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Oops, forgot Jammu and Kashmir football team
 * Keep - surely their team was also notable when they still a separate nation. Nfitz (talk) 07:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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