Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Official West Ham United Dream Team


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 10:00, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

The Official West Ham United Dream Team

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This article contains no references to indicate why the subject is important or significant. In fact, even the article text barely suggests any semblance of notability. Furthermore, the table in the article is surely a violation of the book's copyright. – PeeJay 10:11, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. – PeeJay 10:13, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Winners are already listed (albeit uncited) in the main West Ham United F.C. article, runners-up is probably excessive detail and it's an unlikely search term for a redirect so Delete -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom and Chris; also a potential copyvio. GiantSnowman 10:35, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete not a significant subject. Surprised it lasted this long. Spiderone  10:55, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Why was no attempt made to discuss, merge, redirect or PROD this prior to going to AfD? AfD should not be the first resort here. I don't see why a merge or redirect to the main club article would be out of the question. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:56, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well if copyright is an issue, then surely those two options are ruled out? Also, I didn't PROD it because I felt that the discussion may be controversial. – PeeJay 14:39, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Factual data, which is basically what this is, is not generally considered to be copyrightable. The actual prose has not been lifted from a source so far as I can see. Anyway, I'd recommend redirecting this, optionally including the selected dream team in one of our myriad of West Ham articles. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:11, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * As mentioned above, it's already included in the club's main article -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:21, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) Factual data may not be copyrightable, but these are the results of a poll which were published in a copyrighted work. – PeeJay 15:23, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * IANAL, but from everything I've read polls still fall under the category of facts. (this is getting off-topic.) Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:28, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
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