Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dorchester Town footballers

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 of the debate was DELETE. Mo0[talk] 02:58, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dorchester Town footballers

Nomination for all of the following articles: Craig Bradshaw, Ryan Hill, Simon Radcliffe, Mark Jermyn, Glenn Howes, Mark Robinson (footballer) and Nick Jones.

All of the above are players at Dorchester Town F.C., a minor amateur semi-professional English football (soccer) club; Dorchester currently play in the Conference South, which is the sixth tier (division) of English football - more than 110 clubs rank above them. None of these players are or were professionals, nor have they done anything that gives them a reasonable degree of notability. Delete all as non-notable. Qwghlm 13:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Additional: I missed out Andy Harris when making the original nom. It should also be added to the list of articles to be deleted, for the exact same reasons as above. Qwghlm 14:54, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, as per Qwghlm. -- Elisson • Talk 13:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nomination. Movementarian 13:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Merge As it is a notable club, a merge as CTOAGN suggests might be a good solution. Poulsen 22:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete all Non-notable, as per nomination. Poulsen 17:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete pn. Dan 16:26, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all too Julien Tuerlinckx 21:48, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nominator. Might be an idea to remove the links in the "Current squad" section of Dorchester Town F.C. to discourage the recreation of these articles. Sliggy 22:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination -Aabha (talk) 18:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I think merging within the club article is a better idea. All content that is factually correct is useful. -Aabha (talk) 15:30, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• Merge. They could either go in a new section of Dorchester Town F.C. (see F.C. United of Manchester#Current players), or if that would make the article too big, create a new article with a title like Players of Dorchester Town F.C. There's no point having loads of one-sentence stubs, but I like the way Wikipedia's coverage of English football goes so far down into non-league. It gives us more rather than less credibility IMO. Image:Yemen flag large.png CTOAGN (talk)
  • Please clarify - do you mean merge with a redirect, or merge without? Qwghlm 09:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Having just checked the merging guidelines, they stipulate that redirects must be left in place, for the sake of preserving article history. So merging without redirecting is not an option; if a merge goes ahead then all the above pages will have to redirect to Dorchester Town F.C.. I don't think that's a very good idea; if someone's non-notable, they're non-notable, and should be deleted totally. Qwghlm 18:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Merge, as per CTOAGN. Carioca 22:08, 8 January 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.