Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richest football clubs

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. There was a weighty consensus that the content should be kept, in some form, and little support for outright deletion. A combined article with Deloitte Football Money League has great attractions since there is significant redundancy between the two pages. However, the question of a merge is a matter for an editorial action, after this AFD. (Non-admin close.) Smile a While (talk) 03:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Richest football clubs

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Entire substantive content is copyvio from http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/34/biz_07soccer_Soccer-Team-Valuations_Rank.html Kevin McE (talk) 00:22, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

• This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Kevin McE (talk) 00:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Facts can't be copyrighted. Article should be moved to Richest football (soccer) clubs, though. Powers ^T 00:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - A noteworthy topic, article could do with expanding. And it appears referenced. Shall we not reference to any copyrighted sources now? Oh for the love of God. Francium12 (talk) 01:03, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep per above. Trees Rock^MyGoal 02:06, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep per above. A table cannot be copyrighted. D.M.N. (talk) 07:28, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Merge/Redirect to Deloitte Football Money League, which covers the same ground, but is up-to-date (which Richest football clubs is not) and goes into a different level of detail. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 07:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to Deloitte Football Money League per Struway2. пﮟოьεԻ 57 09:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy keep Football is the most popular sports in the World. Many people are interested in the richest football clubs. This is a notable list. Perhaps the name can be changed to List of richest football clubs or similar. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 13:44, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to Deloitte Football Money League. Well, I didn't know about that article! Very good argument by Struway2. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 13:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep and definitely no redirect. One article is a summary of data compiled by Forbes magazine, the other is compiled by the Deloitte accounting firm; one has information about annual revenue, one has information about revenue, operating income, and estimated worth of club; that doesn't mean that one is "better" than the other, nor is there any reason that we must choose between one article or the other. It's not as if Forbes and Deloitte are playing a match against each other. Mandsford (talk) 17:25, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Comment Evidently consensus is clearly against deletion. No problem, but what should we do with an article that is not a summary of the Forbes article, but is essentially identical to it, and has neither meaningful selective editing nor additional comment? Kevin McE (talk) 18:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

• Merge merge both articles into a more general article covering football wealth using both tables. --neonwhite user page talk 22:09, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Merge per neon white. CrazyChemGuy (talk) 22:16, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Noteworthy subject. Facts arn't copyrightable. Tresiden (talk) 22:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Very good info. I like it and looked for for a reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.233.37.252 (talk) 15:46, 22 May 2008 (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.