Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament

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The result was delete. Secret ^account 02:35, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2008 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament[edit]

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Non-notable sports year. No independent refs. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. PROD removed by creator under Wikipedia:Ignore all rules. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:16, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:28, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:28, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:28, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:30, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

While this, as well as the other articles in the series about the Missouri Valley soccer tournaments from 1991 through 2013, may well be non-notable, one of the principles of the Wikipedia is to ignore the rules if it improves the Wikipedia. It is the opinion of some, myself included, that the presence of the complete series of articles about the MVC men's soccer tournament from 1991 through 2013 improves the WSikipedia, regardless of notability, giving them just cause to remain. This is magnified by the fact that, if you click on the "Find sources" above, you will be directed to sites that reference these Wikipedia articles in particular. GWFrog (talk) 03:49, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - As noted above does not meet guidelines for being included. Just because the article is referenced is no reason to keep it. In fact it's the very reason it should be removed IMO. People get the impression if it's on Wiki it must be important. Caffeyw (talk) 07:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability, non-notable tournament, fails WP:GNG. Giant Snowman 09:49, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
DELETE - I have merged the complete series of annual tournaments into the main MVC tournament article & tagged all of the others for speedy deletion... GWFrog (talk) 15:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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