Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Illinois high school hockey

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 Delete.--Húsönd 21:25, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Illinois high school hockey

Delete - PROD'd and then DEPROD'd with the edit summary of "deprod obviously notable school" (?) Basically, there is no verifiable information available to suggest that there is any sort of overall (or even WP:LOCAL) notability for this topic. As it stands the article is comprised of an unsourced POV statement about the growing popularity of hockey in Illinois, a statement that "high schools field varsity teams competing, in the Amateur Hockey Association Illinois" [sic], the factoid that Al Montoya played hockey in Illinois, and a 1 entry list of Amateur Hockey Association Illinois club teams. The problem is that even cleaned up, there is no real useful potential for expansion here. AHAI itself does not appear to be a notable club and if it was it would merit its own article with a list of teams. As I said before, I can find nothing reliable to suggest that High School or Amateur level hockey is a significant or growing sport in Illinois. There is a merge tag on the article, but without verification, I wouldn't even suggest a merge to Illinois because at that point all you have is a unsourced POV statement and mention of a non-notable organization (AHAI).--Isotope23 20:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. Non-notable and unverifiable. I am not sure that AHAI is non-notable but this article in particular sure is. MartinDK 20:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Very little content, and what's there isn't notable. In fact, there's no way this topic could ever be notable. The proposed merge with the Illinois article is almost BJAODN-worthy. -- Kicking222 22:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — Delete per nomination. Lack of content, and the user who started it was quite new, registering on November 14. Surely that doesn't automatically make it non-notable, but I do question it's notability, and its need for a separate article. –- kungming·2 | ^(Talk·^Contact) 01:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The two sentenses that form the bulk of the article have OR/POV problems. No real sources; as it is, no notability is established. Also, as a side note, I'm from Illinois and I can say, at least in central Illinois, hockey is not very popular. Sure, some teams exist (though I know of no high school teams), but then again I'm guessing all states have some sort of hockey league. --The Way 08:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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