Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016–17 East Midlands Counties Football League

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 20:20, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2016–17 East Midlands Counties Football League

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And the other seasons:

No indication of notability, no significant coverage in reliable third-party sources. None of these season articles cite any sources beyond match result or season result tables, plus one amateur summary of one week's matches ("sent from my iPad", no indication of editorial oversight, not a reliable source). Routine local news coverage of individual games likely exists but wouldn't help to establish notability. Huon (talk) 20:11, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 00:06, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 00:06, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 00:06, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:23, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. As all the other level 10 leagues and all the teams competing in these leagues, East Midlands Counties League is just above the cut-off line and considered notable. Martinklavier (talk) 12:39, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all. Cut-off line for notability for English Football is between levels 10 and 11. East Midlands Counties League is at level 10.

There was a similar proposal to delete season articles for West Midlands (Regional) League in April 2016. The comments made on that occasion are probably relevant here, too. See here. Drawoh46 (talk) 12:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the above comments about where we draw the cut-off point. Number 5 7 19:15, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the above keep comments are to my understanding universally incorrect. Whilst there is clear consensus that level 10 is the cut off point for notability for English football clubs, There is no such consensus that indicates seasons at this level are inherently notable. The previous AfD noted above was indeed keep, but relied on similar fallacies and claims of notability not backed up to recorded consensus. It is a statement of fact that there is essentially zero non-local non-routine coverage of games played at this level, let alone specific articles covering the season as a subject in itself. This is to ignore the clear WP:NOTSTATS issues with the article; issues which arise as a direct result of the lack of available coverage with which to write reliably sourced prose. Fenix down (talk) 09:19, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per prior consensus as mentioned above. See also the AfD linked to, which said the same thing overwhelmingly. Smartyllama (talk) 12:36, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone 11:57, 6 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as arguments above. Giant Snowman 15:28, 6 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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.