Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Independent Flag Football League

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. notability not sufficiently established. --++Lar: t/c 04:13, 18 June 2006 (UTC) NOTE please list all articles covered under the nomination, don't assume that "what links here" will catch them. There are a large number of articles also covered by this nom that are not named off. They're all going to be deleted though. IF one of the creators wants to set up their own wiki and wants all the text userified, contact me. No place for it here that I can see though. ++Lar: t/c 04:17, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

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This is a non-notable local organization not discussed by any third party, in violation of Wikipedia's notabilty policy. KriZe 17:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Pages regarding matches to be played in 5 years, including starting times and quarter-by-quarter breakdowns are of little interest to anyone but the participants themselves. As for already-played games, were any of these broadcast on local media or written up in the paper? I should encourage you to create your own wiki, and all of this material would be quite appropriate and that would be a suitable reference to commemmorate this league and its matches, but the notability factor overall is nil. KriZe 17:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a mirror of iffl.info. Melchoir 18:18, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Retain. Themadmac An organization with roughly 200 members in a community hardly seems 'non-notable' to me, and the article's lack of amendment by third parties seems to me to be indicative of its quality rather than KriZe's perception. By the logic that pages regarding matches played in the future are reason for deleting main articles, Wikipedia's entries for the National Football League and several other sports organizations, at various levels pro and amateur, should be deleted as well. And to answer your question, KriZe, YES, the league's games and the organization's events have received periodic coverage both locally and nationally - most notably in 2004 when the organization's founders were covered by Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and other publications. Besides, I always thought Wikipedia was about [u]adding[/u] information, not selectively deleting it.
• Keep. Thomasjmarshall The article may be borrowed from their website, but its still informational and should be kept.
• Delete "roughly 200 members in a community" is the definition of a small and non-notable organization. Unless User:Themadmac can provide citations for the claims of press coverage, this is a clear delete. Actually, Themadac doesn't claim press coverage of the subject, merely the subject's founders. This is a clear delete under a number of policies including WP:NOT a webhost to "mirror" Melchoir. :) —WAvegetarian•(talk) 08:55, 14 June 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.