Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cocos (Keeling) Islands national football team

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The result was delete. Jamie^☆S93 00:08, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cocos (Keeling) Islands national football team[edit]

Also nominating Christmas Island national football team, as this team's only opponents. Neither team is notable. They only play against each other. If they ever take part in domestic or international competition then they can be recreated. Seeing as one island has a population of around 600, and the other less than 1500, I sadly find that unlikely. Stu.W UK (talk) 00:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC) Stu.W UK (talk) 00:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I concur with the nomination. Tavix | Talk 00:18, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Most of those players probably don't exist, particularly the multiple Reddaways. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.172.121.243 (talk) 17:36, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Stu.W UK (talk) 00:30, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, if sources can be found. I believe these should be kept but altered, including the title. These teams are in no sense national teams as the Cocos Islands and Christmas Island are not nations but Territories of Australia. Having said that, these teams are undoubtedly notable within the context of these Territories and could be made into good interesting articles. --Bduke (Discussion) 01:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. -- Bduke (Discussion) 01:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

*Merge with respective national articles. Insufficient notability to warrant stand-alone articles. WWGB (talk) 03:22, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete both Cocos (Keeling) Islands is not a nation, so the article is incorrectly labelled as national team. I doubt there is any significant coverage of this team. LibStar (talk) 07:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both no sources to meet WP:ORG and neither are in any way 'national' teams. Nick-D (talk) 08:33, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom - two teams only playing friendlies against each other in all of their history surely don't have any sort of notability. --Angelo (talk) 08:44, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both per nom, non-notable. Giant Snowman 11:36, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both as they both fail WP:N. John Sloan @ 13:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as the whole POINT of non-affiliated national sides, such as members of the NF board, is that they are non-notable, but the fact that they ARE recognised by an affiliation (in this case, Football Federation Australia means they should stay. Furthermore, for anyone who is a fan of soccer, the passion involved in trying to get a national team together and enter it for various competitions such as the Viva Cup, the Island Games, etc etc., is fascinating in itself. I have looked at this page and all the other similar pages many times over the years I've been on Wikipedia, and as a member of a community that consults football results constantly, would be devastated to see this page and similar pages go. Tris2000 (talk) 16:05, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ILIKEIT and WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS are not valid reasons. Also FIFA does not recognise these as national sides. LibStar (talk) 23:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. These are NOT national teams, the matches are irregular friendlies between neighbouring islands. There is an absence of references from reliable independent sources (fails WP:SOURCES). WWGB (talk) 00:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, these islands are not a country, thus an article on a national football team does not make sense. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 01:02, 23 May 2009 (UTC).[reply]

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