Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2005-06 Northern Mariana Championship

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) 02:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2005-06 Northern Mariana Championship

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The subject lacks notability as required by WP:NSPORT. Dolphin (t) 04:58, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Dolphin (t) 05:17, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is positively ridiculos. How many top level football league articles are there? I've had it with wikipedia and their deletion process. --Hockeyben (talk) 14:21, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the article in question doesn't exactly help itself by explaining anything about the league does it? I didn't nominate it, but I can certainly see why it was nominated. I'd also note that the league itself clearly has an article and can probably just about justify one. Calling it "top level" is, however, probably a wee bit of a step too far you know. Blue Square Thing (talk) 15:32, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some sort of merge (probably) OK, so we have Football in the Northern Mariana Islands which is a two sentence stub, we have Northern Mariana Championship which is better and links to the article in question as well as similar articles for years up till 2010 and we have Northern Mariana Islands Football Association which is pretty limited as well. There is very limited external sourcing for this - this is basically it as far as I can tell - there's some limited content at the Saipan Tribune and there might be some at the Marianas Variety], but my impression from both is that domestic football is a limited sport played at a level which would not suggest any real notability in a country of any size. We also have Northern Mariana Islands national football team which is red link heaven but a pretty sound article other than that. Given the number of teams involved, the relative youth of the league and what appears to be a potential difficulty sourcing any reliable information on each season, it might make some sense to combine the articles into Northern Mariana Championship, perhaps with a section for each year? Blue Square Thing (talk) 15:32, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 17:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - yes, it may be a nation's top-level tournament, but said nation is not affiliated to FIFA, rendering it non-notable. Giant Snowman 17:18, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Blue Square Thing. There's not really anything of great note in this article, but the basic info would sit well at Northern Mariana Championship or somewhere similar. Makes no sense to have several stubby articles when one or two bigger, better ones can be made. Bretonbanquet (talk) 17:25, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I'm fine with a merge. The RSSF is the top football research website, so its a good source--Hockeyben (talk) 17:36, 14 May 2011 (UTC).[reply]
Delete. Northern Mariana Championship could do with a history section and the limited information in this article would be better used there. I don't believe "2005-06 Northern Mariana Championship" would be a plausible redirect. —BETTIA— ^talk 09:07, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The lack of utility of the search term is a sound basis for delete actually. I think I've probably taken all the more usable content from the articles and put it on the Northern Mariana Championship page in a v basic form. Blue Square Thing (talk) 11:48, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - not because the league is not notable, but because according to the only source in the article (RSSSF), the 2005-06 season did not actually take place (it doesn't say that the league was left uncompleted, it says the season was cancelled and makes mention of the alleged recognition of Red Rocks as champions). No point having an article on a season which apparently did not take place...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:09, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'm in agreement with Chris. Argyle 4 Life^talk 06:47, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.