Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weymouth F.C. season 2009–10

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The result was delete. \ Backslash Forwardslash / (talk) 16:06, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weymouth F.C. season 2009–10[edit]

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Although Weymouth F.C. has been a professional football club since 2005, they do not currently play at a national level of the English football league system. Therefore, they are probably not deserving of an article about this particular season in their history. – Pee Jay 13:44, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. – Pee Jay 13:47, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - consensus (or lack thereof) here was that teams that have played at a national level are notable enough for season articles, even in seasons not spent at a national level -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:50, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per nom, team isn't playing at a high enough level to warrant a season article. Giant Snowman 14:00, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - they have played in a national league and thus justify season articles. I know that there is a school of thought that non-national seasons are not appropriate for pages. However, I think this is a bad idea since it blows random holes in a club's history. Just one word of caution; listing forthcoming fixtures is not permissible for a league club, without a licence, since it breaches PL/FL copyright. Does anyone know if similar considerations apply to Conference fixtures? TerriersFan (talk) 01:54, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't believe so. The late Tony Kempster never published PL/FL fixtures on his site because of the fee that DataCo wanted to charge him, but he was able to publish Conference fixtures without any problem -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:57, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- (edit conflict) Just out of interest, are you saying that every season in the history of a club that has played in a national league is notable? So, if a club has played in the Football League Third Division South and now plays in the Bristol Downs Football League Division Four (yes, this is a facetious example), do you think their current seasons would be notable? – PeeJay 07:58, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - (equally facetious) Division Three South wasn't a national league. Sorry, couldn't resist :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:23, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - D'oh! X-o – Pee Jay 08:46, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - In principal yes. However, if the season is so far down the pyramid that a season article would be silly then that could be dealt with on a case by case basis. TerriersFan (talk) 15:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Weymouth are still playing at a notable enough level for this to remain Eldumpo (talk) 10:35, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Based on what, may I ask? The consensus that meant that the Gateshead FC season articles got kept was never really definitive, so who's really to say that Weymouth do play at a high enough level for a season article? – Pee Jay 00:02, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. No matter the club is notable, since, as a club playing at a semi-pro level, it has no enough importance to deserve such a level of detail. There's even level 10 clubs from England who have articles, but I wouldn't really think they should be allowed to have such kind of articles. --Angelo (talk) 09:14, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The team is notable, but the season? No way. Stifle (talk) 10:01, 19 September 2009 (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.