Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ardwick Athletic F.C.

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was speedy delete. NW (Talk) 01:27, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ardwick Athletic F.C.[edit]

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This is essentially a hoax, as Manchester City F.C. was never known as "Ardwick Athletic F.C.". The club was known as Ardwick F.C., which already redirects to the main article, but there seems little point in having a redirect from a name by which the club was never known - who's likely to be searching under a name that never existed? Content was copied directly from Hyde Road, so there's nothing to merge. Club badge does not look like one designed in the Victorian era and is probably fake, article's creator has created hoax articles before ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:25, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note this article has been moved around a bit and is currently at Ardwick Association Football Club, redirects will have to deleted when the article is deleted. pablo_hablo. 20:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:25, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as the nominator says, this not a valid search term for a redirect and info already exists elsewhere no can't merge. Giant Snowman 14:12, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This appears to have arisen from a misunderstanding. Manchester City's predecessor was Ardwick Association Football Club. Ardwick A.F.C. is already a redirect to Manchester City F.C., and the only content here is copied from Hyde Road. The badge is genuine, though that point is moot really. Oldelpaso (talk) 16:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I know a bit about Man City (due to my flatmate supporting them), and they were never called Ardwick Athletic: it was just Ardwick. There's also no point in redirecting it to the Man City article, because who's going to search for a name that was never used (it's also unlikely they'd search for a term that has been used - who's going to search for Small Heath instead of Birmingham City, for example?)? DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 16:47, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Yes, I am aware that Small Heath F.C. redirects to Birmingham City F.C., so don't point it out. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 16:50, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- thanks Oldelpaso for telling me that it was Ardwick Association Football Club! i was told that it was Ardwick Athletic Football Club, and i have now moved it to follow suit. Pabmeista —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pabmeista (talk • contribs) 19:17, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As per the above, the user has moved the article to Ardwick Association Football Club. This is, I suppose, a plausible redirect to Manchester City F.C., but a separate standalone article still isn't needed..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

.........and now he has moved it into his userspace (and also, bizarrely, attempted to speedy delete Hyde Road, the article which the contents of this one were copied from) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:08, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Back in mainspace now, the AfD template was showing an error (not for userpages). pablo_hablo. 20:21, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete, hoax by serial hoaxer. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The One & Only Fools and Horses. A new redirect to Manchester City can be created if necessary when this is gone. pablo_hablo. 20:52, 18 December 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.