Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Macclesfield Basketball Club

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The result was delete. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:35, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Macclesfield Basketball Club

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Basketball club in the village of Macclesfield, South Australia (Population ~ 700) in the Adelaide Hills. Plays in a local league against other villages in the Adelaide Hills. No notable achievements or sources likely. Given that around 25% of people in Australia are aged 12-35, they have around 150 prime-aged people to choose from, so less people available than an average high school ~ 1000 students. So not notable since we don't have articles for high school sports teams. Bumbubookworm (talk) 00:40, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete a local club which fails WP:ORG. LibStar (talk) 00:59, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:35, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:35, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:36, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The population of the town has absolutely no bearing on whether the article should be kept or not. The only thing that matters is whether the team has the significant coverage to pass WP:GNG. A WP:BEFORE should have been conducted to establish whether it does or not. Alvaldi (talk) 08:59, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- This club has no sporting merit and there is nothing out there apart from its Facebook page and just the local league stats Bumbubookworm (talk) 11:17, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - Nominating this article for deletation if a search during WP:BEFORE showed no significant coverage would be a good and valid reason. However, nominating it because the team comes from a small town and stating it is "not notable since we don't have articles for high school sports teams" is not a valid reason. Alvaldi (talk) 13:58, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, does not meet any Wikipedia guideline. Geschichte (talk) 17:35, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep There is some sustained long term coverage of the subject. I have not checked these but there are potentially over 500 references available here. The significant majority of these will be routine and-or minor and some not relevant, but even if only 1% are good references, there may be sufficient to support GNG. Looks like insufficient BEFORE was done. Aoziwe (talk) 10:47, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm was fine with it staying until I saw no references. Wp9097 (talk) 23:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete article doesn't cite a single source and fails GNG. Colonestarrice (talk) 14:54, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - first of all, thanks to Aoziwe for finding that resource. None of the results on the "National" level return results that pertain to this topic. This topic covers the league formed in 2011, and none of the post-2011 entries are relevant to the topic at hand. There are a lot of results from the 1950s, but these are without exception routine coverage reporting scores. I couldn't find any in-depth coverage of the topic, even in WP:LOCALINT sources. Therefore I can't find any of our criteria which indicates the topic encyclopedically notable. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 15:26, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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