Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afghanistan Rugby Federation

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The result was merge to Rugby union in Afghanistan. Merge will be surely the best option. (non-admin closure) ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^Talk ^Email 08:17, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Afghanistan Rugby Federation

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"Afghanistan Rugby Federation ( ARF ) officially launched rugby in Afghanistan on May 20, 2011 with the aim and intention that Rugby will soon be developed into a sport game." or, in so many words: there is nothing. Not proper working website, virtually no hits, no competition, no clubs, just one rugby camp and a load oficial blahblah. Totally not notabel Night of the Big Wind _talk 00:07, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Rugby union in Afghanistan. The federation is covered on that page, and until more and better sources are available the federation itself doesn't need its own article. Ravendrop 00:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Ravendrop. There's nothing in any references to suggest that ARF is officially representative of Rugby Union in Afghanistan. As the nom indicates, the website of ARF is of poor quality (it consists mainly of Lorem ipsum, though one page does give a contact phone number of a UK mobile phone) with a second reference in the Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka mentioning a Sevens competition (with the team of seven comprising the entire national team). No mention at all on the IRB website of the Afghan Rugby Federation (though as a lover of the game I'd love to see Afghanistan represented internationally). Tonywalton ^Talk 01:03, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Rugby union-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:23, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Afghanistan-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:24, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

comment National team played at least 3 (apparently R.Union, 15 men) matches in Pakistan (sports.xin.msn.com, using France-Presse, "Afghans scrum down as rugby takes tentative hold") and they are not a IRB member, though IRB seemns to acknowledge their existence and that they're hetting there (rugbyunionrules.com, "Afghan players dream of rugby glory"). Anyway, both keeping and merging sound fine. - Nabla (talk) 09:20, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as above. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:12, 15 October 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.