Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waterloo Warriors (Belgium)


 * 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   Userfy. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 15:54, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Waterloo Warriors (Belgium)

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American football in Belgium is an extremely minor sport, covered by Wikipedia to an incredible degree. Whilst I applaud the editor responsible for maintaining such detailed records, I cannot ignore the fact that just about none of this satisfies Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Wikipedia is being used to host it all because web hosting is too expensive, but Wikipedia is not a webspace provider.

The articles we have include subjects such as the league, the conferences within it, every team (except one, already deleted), stats on every season since 2000, the Belgian Bowl and every game since 1995. Some of these are likely notable topics, but most of the articles appear to fail inclusion guidelines. The teams, in particular, do not appear to attract non-trivial coverage in reliable independent sources, and yet each must independently show this in order to justify inclusion.

It would be inappropriate to nominate every single team article in one batch; each must be given due attention. I am therefore nominating just four at this time - the subject, plus:



RichardOSmith (talk) 07:33, 24 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep give me some time to edit them, i'm currently studying for my examinations, so i don't have time to do extensive research for more reference material. If you delete one team, the whole belgian american football content gets damaged due to links that go nowhere... Please give me some time to edit. 26th of june i'm finished with the examinations Arkangel lucifer (talk) 09:23, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * See Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions, especially WP:PLEASEDONT. RichardOSmith (talk) 17:54, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Belgium-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 15:38, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 15:39, 24 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Userfy seems to be the appropriate move here for now. When the article is ready we can then come to a consensus about its notability standards and if met, move into mainspace.  If not, try another wiki with the research that is held in userspace.--Paul McDonald (talk) 11:33, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Userfy per Paulmcdonald. Creator appears to be interested in further developing it, but it's just not suitable for articlespace right now. cmadler (talk) 14:36, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Duplicate !vote struck The overview of the american football in Belgium is unique on the internet. Currently only paper archives exist, these pages have an added value to the internet and the general knowledge. Arkangel lucifer (talk) 11:13, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Per the deletion rationale, Wikipedia is not your webspace provider. If you want to put these stats onto the internet then go ahead and there are plenty of ways you may do that. But Wikipedia is not one of them if you can't demonstrate notability. RichardOSmith (talk) 14:43, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Userfy per comments by Paul and Cmadler. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:34, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Userfy to User:Arkangel lucifer/Waterloo Warriors (Belgium), plus userfy the other articles listed above.  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 01:44, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.