Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kerry Novice Football Championship

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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 Merge and redirect to Kerry_club_championships#Kerry_Novice_Football_Championship --JForget 22:39, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kerry Novice Football Championship

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non-notable list of sporting events, with no references of any for, let alone any sign of any substantial coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject, as required by WP:N. The GAA is a hugely important body in Ireland, organising everything from minor local junior events to to the hugely significant All-Ireland competitions, but that doesn't mean that everything to do with the GAA is sufficiently notable to merit a wikipedia article. Per Gaelic football#Leagues_and_team_structure, this appears to be a local feeder for a third-division competition, which is stretching notability too far. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:31, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Question is it any less notable than Bristol_Downs_Football_League ,As per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Gaelic_games#Notability i was the opinion to merge , how ever after seeing the depth the English_football_league_system#The_system i decided against it > Google says [1] [2] Gnevin (talk) 00:35, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Your google searches were badly constructed: I get 206 non-wikipedia ghits for "Bristol Downs Football League" and only 7 non-wikipedia ghits for "Kerry Novice Football Championship", so the Kerry event is an order of magnitude more obscure. --BrownHairedGirl(talk) •
(contribs) 04:09, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm aware of WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS which is only an essay but i'm also aware of Wiki has a rule for everything, see WP:BASH Gnevin (talk) 13:42, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Rather than ignoring all rules, the way to keep an article like this is to establish that it is notable, i.e. that it has received non-trivial coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject. The list of links added to the article by another editor didn't even appear to verify any of the facts in the article, let meet the requirement of substantial coverage. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:59, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Appears to be a local competition with insufficient significance for an encyclopedia article.--Michig (talk) 07:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Verifiable but not notable. My family lives less than 100 miles from Kerry and we can confirm that this is less notable than a biannual flag football match between two elementary schools. Stifle (talk) 23:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Not notable. Also, per BrownHairedGirl.RyRy5 talk 01:44, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge. I honestly don't think this should have its own article. However, it might be briefly mentioned in an article on Kerry club championships, just saying that it's the fourth level of competition and giving the winners. I can easily create the article in question if it was agreed to merge.Tameamseo (talk) 09:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Comment: You are welcome to do that irrespective of the outcome of this debate and if you require the content of the deleted page to help you, let me know. Stifle (talk) 12:35, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge or Delete As per BHG and the notability issues here Gnevin (talk) 21:08, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Comment content merged to Kerry_club_championships#Kerry_Novice_Football_Championship
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.