Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of non-national representative teams in men's football

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The result was Delete due to issues with original research and notability. Chillum 05:24, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of non-national representative teams in men's football[edit]

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The criteria of the list is original research. The actual list is not a distinct category but a mixture of county teams, semi-autonomous regions and other association sides. There is no clear encyclopedic reason for the article. Eckerslike (talk) 21:34, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, weakly agree delete. The content is a collection of material that could be listed elsewhere (List of NF Board members or Football at the Island Games) - it's unclear what gives it coherence as a page. --Super Nintendo Chalmers (talk) 12:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep but tighten criteria. It seems legitimate to have a list of the main non-FIFA organisations (such as NF-Board, Confederation of Independent Football Associations, etc) and their member teams broken down by the organisation(s) they are a member of. Although it's possible that this info might go in the relevant article Non-FIFA international football. Colapeninsula (talk) 13:03, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - no evidence of notability. Giant Snowman 17:51, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - as WP:OR, complete lack of clarity as to what "non-national representative team" means. Could essentially mean anything and requires no form of official approval. Additionally, many of the links here are not to an article on a representative team but to the people / area that they claim to represent. Elements could be used in other articles as noted above but this article is too vague to be encyclopedic. Fenix down (talk) 14:58, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for same reasons as above. Qualification for the list is vague and at the discretion of its editors, which makes it very much non-encyclopedic; and any subset of the list which is encyclopedic already has its own article. Aspirex (talk) 11:47, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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