Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plymouth Blitz (BUAFL)

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The result was delete. JForget 00:53, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plymouth Blitz (BUAFL)[edit]

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Whilst the article appears long and relatively well written, the article suffers from a couple of fatal problems.

Firstly the subject appears to be non-notable. Google returns only sites related to the team and its rivals. An archives search of Google news returns only one article specifically about the the team. The article is a short run-down of the teams entire season, carried in the local rag (circulation 40,000). The only other news references are 5+ year old match reports carried in the local papers of rival teams, chiefly Cardiff Cobras (South Wales Echo) and Birmingham Lions (Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail).

This lack of notability isn't really surprising as sports teams at British Universities aren't generally notable in ANY sport. Never mind what is a niche interest sport in the UK. In most cases UK university sports teams are unheard of within their own institution never mind in the wider world.

The article is also completely unreferenced. Given the lack of reliable or independent sources there is little prospect of being able to reference it. At that point no matter, how well written it appears and whilst I'm sure it is accurate, the whole lot could just have been made-up on the spot. Pit-yacker (talk) 11:20, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. —Pit-yacker (talk) 11:20, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Given available sources (and taking into consideration the Herald source that Pit-yacker provides, most of which is to do with the local BAFL club), I do not believe that it is possible to write a policy-compliant article on this subject, which is part of the point of having notability guidelines. As such, this does not appear to be one of the very few notable British university sports teams. Pfainuk talk 11:30, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - As I've said many times before, it is a very rare British Uni sports team that is notable ~~outside~~ within their campus, and this is not one of them - and a Google search doesn't reveal much (after stripping out references to the very notable Plymouth Blitz). DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 14:56, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unreferenced, no reliable sources.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:23, 3 July 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.