Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Footy Show (Canadian TV program)

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The result was delete. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 20:47, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Footy Show (Canadian TV program)[edit]

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This article about a show broadcast on cable that has no coverage in reliable sources to establish notability. The article is unsourced and I cannot find any coverage myself. Whpq (talk) 19:56, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:12, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:12, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 09:29, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 08:18, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - no evidence of notability. Giant Snowman 08:22, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Lacks reliable source. Barca (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:35, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Given that this show started 12 years ago, I ran a ProQuest search to look for older media coverage that wouldn't Google — but apart from one glancing mention of its existence in a news article about The Score, I otherwise got only the show's own primary source press releases about itself and irrelevant text matches on other unrelated things with the same name. (I'm not even kidding about this, the Australian one actually got more coverage in Canadian newspapers than the Canadian one ever did!) Television shows are not handed an automatic notability pass that exempts them from actually having to have any sources just because they existed — the quality of the sources that can be provided to support an article are what determines whether the show gets to keep an article or not, and there are no viable sources to get this one over the bar. Bearcat (talk) 14:57, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - a seminal show in Canadian soccer broadcasting. I've expanded and added 6 references. Nfitz (talk) 18:38, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for taking the time to improve the article. Unfortunately, the added sources are mostly passing mentions, and some don't even name the program. the sole source that covers the show in any detail is a blog and not a reliable source. -- Whpq (talk) 00:17, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Whpq is correct; these aren't the sources that make a difference. We're looking for reliable source coverage about the show, whereas you've added an unreliable blog entry about the show and reliable source coverage of other things or people which happens to glancingly mention the show or one of its hosts as a bit player rather than the subject. Bearcat (talk) 22:31, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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