Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FA Cup 2006-07 Qualifying Rounds

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 keep. Sandstein 15:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FA Cup 2006-07 Qualifying Rounds

FA Cup 2006-07 Qualifying Rounds (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Way more detail than necessary or appropriate for Wikipedia; this is not a news archive, nor an indiscriminate collection of information. An associated precedent for removing month by month results has been set by two recent AfD's - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NBA Results November 2006 and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NHL Results October 2006.

See also:

• FA Premier League results August 2006
• FA Premier League results September 2006
• FA Premier League results October 2006
• FA Premier League results November 2006
• FA Premier League results December 2006, Deletion discussion

Humbly,

David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 17:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

• Merge useful information into FA Cup 2006-07 Will ^{(Because you're filthy, ooh, and I'm gorgeous)} 17:35, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep With other editors, I contributed to the creation of this article to avoid the main page being too large. It was decided on the talk page that including the Qualifying Rounds in full for the first time provided a full and complete record of the FA Cup for this season. Unlike the month by month results which I think should be deleted the Qualifying Round article is a one-off article providing official record of the results for one season's competition. It shows that up to now Wiki's FA Cup pages have effectively ignored months of competition.

I agree that the month-by-month articles should be deleted, but I urge you to consider how Wiki is being used here. Rather than only holding the results from the First Round Proper - as BBC Sport does - Wiki is allowing fans, other editors, non-fans, to view full and complete results from the very start of the competition. Think about how, from here, the stub articles of smaller teams could be grown and improved. doktorb _words^deeds 07:49, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep These rounds are just as much a part of the competition as round one onwards, therefore there is no reason to delete them if the article on the rest of the competition is being kept. As stated above, this was broken out from the main article specifically because it was getting too large. Comparison with month-by-month results from the league is inappropriate ChrisTheDude 07:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep The qualifying rounds are most definitely part of the competition, as they are in the current UEFA Cup. Merging it back into the main FA Cup article would make it too big for my liking, so it makes sense to have the qualifying rounds as a seperate article. One Night In Hackney 08:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom and precident. Game by game results in the NBA and NHL are also part of their competitions, however that level of detail is uncessary. Doubly so given these articles are completely lacking in context. My preference, as it was for the NHL, is to list game results in articles for each team's season. Resolute 20:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Results in the FA Cup don't compare to league competitions like NBA or NHL. It's a national competition that includes teams from all levels. -- Bpmullins | Talk 21:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. Coincidentally I was looking at this page yesterday, and found it very informative. Comparison with the NHL/NBA/Premier league don't hold, as neither of them is a major knockout tournament in the same way that the FA Cup is (if you lose an NHL match, you get to play again). As stated above, this stops main article bloat, as well. Grutness...wha? 00:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and possibly merge all FA results pages to one; but, I can see a rationale for this page being kept separate from the later stages. Neier 12:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. As per other comments, the qualifying rounds are as much a part of the competition as the later rounds, and including everything in a single article would make it too long. Splitting the qualifying results off into a seperate article was a sensible thing to do. Gasheadsteve 18:33, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude 21:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. For the reasons of what Gasheadsteve said 13:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - a unique record that is entirely encyclopaedic. TerriersFan 21:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
• "Keep - the results in the FA Cup are euqivalent to having the league table of a league competition. --Robdurbar 17:11, 3 January 2007 (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.