Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UCH Sharks (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. Shi meru  07:50, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

UCH Sharks
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Non-notable British University American Football team. British university sports teams are rarely of note within their own institution, never mind in the wider world. The handful of exceptions are confined to more popular sports such as rowing, soccer, cricket and rugby (American Football is of niche interest in the UK). A quick Google returns nothing beyond sites directly related to the team and its rivals. Article is unreferenced and given the lack of independent and reliable sources there is little prospect of being able to reference the material.

As this team draws its membership from a number of colleges I do not see any obvious article to merge its content to. This of course ignores the issue that a merge simply shifts the issue of verifiability to another article

The previous nomination almost two years ago appears to have failed largely as it was a batch nomination of all British University American Football teams. The whole batch was failed on points about individual teams (such as at the time two teams called Glasgow Tigers shared the same article). Since that nomination, little has changed at this article and around half (21) of the articles in the original (41) nomination have been deleted at individual Afds. Pit-yacker (talk) 13:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  —Pit-yacker (talk) 13:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 15:07, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete The article as it stands, unreferenced and without indicating notability, seems like a delete to me. I can't find any reliable sources for it.  As it stands, delete DRosin (talk) 15:23, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - I can't find anything to grant this team notability, so it seems to be a non-notable team about a niche sport in Britain. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) &#124; (talk to me) &#124; (What I've done)  15:28, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. It's very rare for a British university sports team to meet WP:GNG, and this team does not appear to be one of the few exceptions to that rule. Pfainuk talk 09:44, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete sadly. Not notable for our standards here.--Paul McDonald (talk) 12:58, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep University American Football in the UK does not have the same coverage as University American Football in the US, but to say this team is non notable is false. The University of Hull Sharks invented the league in 1985, and the history of the league and the UCH Sharks can be found at www.buafl.net. The original history can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Collegiate_American_Football_League. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JayJayBWFC (talk • contribs) 09:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)  — JayJayBWFC (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Comment: British Collegiate American Football League is itself an unreferenced article, covering a subject of dubious notability (little mention outside websites of teams that competed in the league). I could invent the North West England Quidditch League, that doesn't automatically make me or the league notable. What would make it notable is significant independent coverage from reliable sources (for example, but not limited to coverage in the press or media, books about the subject, published papers about the subject) - something which UCH Sharks and BCAFL lack.  At the same time, buafl.net hardly constitutes an independent source. Pit-yacker (talk) 17:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
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