Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manchester United F.C. Reserves

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 redirect. As pointed out below, 'delete and merge' is not a valid option. I have taken those !votes to be merge. On having done this, there is no consensus to delete. However, people who !voted that way clearly don't want the article to be kept in its current state. Hence the redirect, which preserves what history there is. Incidentally I don't think it has all been merged in, at least I can't find it in the main Manchester United F.C. article- so go ahead and do so if desired. Petros471 18:39, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Manchester United F.C. Reserves

• Delete Pointless stub that could easily be merged into main article.SenorKristobbal 18:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and merge into Manchester United F.C. --Angelo 18:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - pointless article. BlueValour 19:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and merge per Angelo. – Elisson • Talk 20:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - sorry folks but 'delete and merge' is not an allowed action. The only choices are Delete or Keep. After either a delete or a keep an editor can, of course, add the content to the main article but it is an editorial action not an AfD decision. This has been advised on here several times. See here, for example. BlueValour 20:20, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm a bit confused here, The top of the AfD page says The page is then either kept, merged and/or redirected, transwikied (moved to another Wikimedia project, such as Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, or another language's Wikipedia—please note that it cannot be transwikied to WikiTravel [1] or Wikinews), renamed/moved to another title, userfied to the creator's user page or user subpage, or deleted per the deletion policy. Are you telling us that those instructions are not valid anymore? If so we should probably change them because it would seem to indicate that the result of an AfD can be merge. DrunkenSmurf 21:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
    • The result can be merge. It cannot be delete and merge. We used to have an explanation on the Guide to deletion about this. Perhaps it was unwise to have removed it. Uncle G 00:15, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Although I am in no way a fan of Man U, the reserve team is a football team in their own right. Articles about far less notable teams are created every day. — Tivedshambo (talk to me/look at me/ignore me) 21:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete TJ Spyke 22:00, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - what little content there is can be included in Manchester United F.C. but the team does not deserve a separate article. Qwghlm 22:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. Alias Flood 23:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep The article as it stands is the tiniest of stubs. The subject of the article is probably notable (there is a dedicated Manchester United TV channel that shows all of the reserves games live, and they do get local media coverage), but if no-one is willing to invest the time to expand it then the article is quite useless. If Keep, then the article needs to be expanded. I would not strongly oppose the deletion of the current article however. aLii 23:54, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep gets media coverage. How the heck is "could easily be merged into main article" a reason for deletion? Why didn't you just do it if it was so easy? Kappa 06:15, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Media coverage doesn't make it notable. School and youth football teams are often reported in local papers but they clearly aren't notable. SenorKristobbal 11:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per reasoning at Liverpool F.C. Reserves. Catchpole 09:25, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and merge relevant info into the main page. - Pal 00:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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.