Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Offaly and Waterford hurling rivalry

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 15:43, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Offaly and Waterford hurling rivalry

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Contested prod. This is a non notable "rivalry", despite the addition of one local source which describes this very occasional run of themill meeting between two hurling teams as such. Two games is not really sufficient to justify this article (and one dreads to think howmany similar non notable articles can be made about any two sporting teams that played in the top league together at one time). The same newspaper also discusses things like the the Waterford - Cork rivalry[1], or the Waterford - Tipperary rivalry[2], or the Waterford - Kilkenny rivalry[3][4]. Or else there is the rivalry the Waterford hurling club has with Wexford[5], and apparently also with Antrim[6]. Oh, and the rivalry with Clare shouldn't be forgotten either.[7] Perhaps it would be more interesting to write an article about which top league hurling team Waterford doesn't have a rivalry with, according to their newspaper. This is just run-of-the-mill sports coverage, nothing exceptional or notable enough to base a specific Wikipedia article on. Fram (talk) 10:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: non-notable article that could lead to a possible 1023 similar ones for hurling alone, let alone other sports. Mention of these two games can easily be added to both county articles. ww2censor (talk) 13:52, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:41, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete "Two previous match-ups" isn't much of a rivalry in any sport. Mandsford (talk) 16:54, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as entirely un-notable. How many deaths and maimings? None. Plus local antagonisms are a natural part of GAA sports, and again un-notable. The sports press are always looking for this sort of thing when there's no real news.Red Hurley (talk) 19:24, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I don't think that this rivalry is significant enough to warrant its own article and the content could easily be included in the relevant counties articles Teester (talk) 10:50, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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