Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARU Phantoms

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 14:36, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ARU Phantoms[edit]

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Not notable. British University sports teams are rarely notable. This isn't one doesnt appear to be one of the exceptions that is. Even mainstream British sports have a minuscule following within their own institution. American Football is extremely niche interest in the UK. A search on Google appears to return nothing beyond the team and university's own sites and those of rival teams.Pit-yacker (talk) 21:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - other than the Boat Race and the occasional cricket match, university sport in the UK is completely non-notable, receiving no coverage whatsoever outside the insitutions involved, and barely any within. At the university I work at, if any of our sports teams' matches are watched by anything other than a small handful of players' friends and girlfriends, it's a rare event indeed...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:57, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 22:37, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:37, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the only sources are the organization's website--that's important on a page, but it's not a source--which wikipedia requires. No source, no article.--Paul McDonald (talk) 01:40, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per other AFDs on British university American football teams. There are a few notable university sports teams in the UK - but almost all in relatively major sports (rowing, football, tennis, cricket) and even in those sports they are the exception rather than the rule. Pfainuk talk 16:52, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There are a few Uni teams in Britain that are notable. But this one - in what is a niche sport in Britain - isn't amongst them. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 13:14, 15 May 2010 (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.