Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Official ball supplier

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 delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:20, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Official ball supplier[edit]

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Contested PROD removed for no reason. Original concern was "This is a non-notable topic. There are, of course, sources to say that sporting events do have official equipment suppliers, but this is not an encyclopaedic subject backed up by reliable, third-party sources to say so." Concerns have not been met since PROD was removed, so original concern stands. – Pee Jay 20:34, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. – Pee Jay 20:41, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. SL93 (talk) 23:24, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:29, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Glossary of association football terms as probable search term, but not independently notable. Giant Snowman 09:22, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The term can refer to any ball game. If the article is deleted, search results would be more useful than a definition, as its meaning is obvious. Peter James (talk) 16:58, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Essentially a dictionary definition with an attached list. The redirect noted above is problematic as any sporting league which uses a ball would potentially have an official ball supplier -- Whpq (talk) 17:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - It currently provides no useful information that cannot be found within existing articles (eg FIFA world cup). I'm struggling to understand the scenario when people would want such disparate information (ie who cares about the differences between the suppliers of american footballs and association footballers). The article fails a number of things in WP:NOT. => Spudgfsh (Text Me!) 17:42, 30 July 2013 (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.