Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunderland Spartans


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The result was   delete. JForget 22:46, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Sunderland Spartans

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Non notable. British University sports teams are rarely notable, even on their own campus. This does not appear to be one of the very small number of exceptions to this rule. A search on Google returns only sites directly related to the team and its rivals. Article is unreferenced, and given complete lack of reliable and independent sources I can't see any prospect of being able to reference it Pit-yacker (talk) 22:50, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  —Pit-yacker (talk) 22:50, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 23:35, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete No sources provided.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:49, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per lack of references. This does not appear to be one of the few notable British university sports teams. Pfainuk talk 07:55, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - with a few obvious exceptions, British university sports teams are rarely notable and this one makes no specific notability claims. TerriersFan (talk) 20:35, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Notable as a full, active member of BUAFL. Please see the extended discussion at Articles for deletion/Derby Braves.  SteveStrummer (talk) 03:04, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * There seems little basis to assume that BUAFL members are inherently notable even in the absence of significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Please demonstrate that such coverage exists. Pfainuk talk 17:15, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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