Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International football results

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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. PeaceNT (talk) 15:53, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] International football results

International football results (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Contested PROD. Original concern was "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information or a news service". Furthermore, the article has no set inclusion criteria. – PeeJay 17:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep I am the editor of this article and I´ll be in charge of updating this artcile every single day. This article informs, which is the main aim of any encyclopedia and I would be grateful if you gave me a chance to continue with this article. If the page is not up to date you may delete it if you wish. There are other articles in wikipedia which are very similar to this one. Eg. Ireland national results and fixtures, China national results and fixtures, etc... so it would be unfair if this page was deleted as there are articles of this type and I´ve put in a lot of effort to make this article.Qampunen (talk) 19:23, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • delete, Wikipedia is not a sports page. We already have Portal:Current events/Sports, if you absolutely have to do this. Corvus cornixtalk 18:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NOT. Agree with Dark Green. Wikipedia is not a sports page. -- Redfarmer (talk) 19:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete as per above. Qampunen, the article only starts from December 2007 - are you planning to enter all international games in history? Articles should not be biased towards recent events. There are many external sources which are almanacs of international football games, such as http://www.rsssf.com/intland.html. It would be preferable to update national team articles, national competition articles, etc on Wikipedia instead. -- Chuq (talk) 23:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment The problem is in how this is organized. There are articles about the CECAFA Challenge Cup and the King's Cup, and about the individual teams whose friendly matches are listed here. I appreciate that the author is presenting a global view of matches happening anywhere in the world on a particular day, and that he/she would maintain it... but the format does, indeed, resemble a sports page. We don't have daily NBA results either. On the other hand, a worldwide list of the matches that lead to World Cup qualifying (or another type of tournament) would be worth maintaining. Nom has a point, in that there have been no inclusion criteria (or boundaries, if you will) along which to organize the article. Look for whatever's been done, drop the day/month/year format, and consider other ways of organizing the information. Best wishes. Mandsford (talk) 01:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong and snowball delete. This fails WP:NOT harder than anything I've ever seen.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 02:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - as per all the above, and the fact that a lot of the games already listed to not involve proper national teams. - fchd (talk) 10:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete- See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irish national team results. Punkmorten (talk) 11:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete- Every reason has already been listed, it should be deleted already. michfan2123 (talk) 11:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NOT and nom. Wikipedia is not a news source. Peanut4 (talk) 21:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. пﮟოьεԻ 57 00:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)


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