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The result was delete. Drmies ( talk) 02:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
Aldershot Town F.C.–Woking F.C. rivalry
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This was recently listed for deletion as part of a group of articles at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A62 derby. Though it was closed as no consensus, I'm relisting this article as there were no particular claims made for its notability in that debate, which got swamped by the discussion of other articles. Both sides compete in the fifth tier National League in England and one of them (Woking) have never competed in professional football. There are no sources that this rivalry is notable; there is no evidence of independent reporting on it, certainly beyond general news coverage that follows most football matches. The teams do consider each other rivals, but that is not the point of contestation here; the point is that this rivalry has no evidence of notability under general notability guidelines, and that sports notability states that "Sports rivalries are not inherently notable. Articles on sports rivalries, such as Yankees–Red Sox rivalry, should satisfy the general notability guideline." Super Nintendo Chalmers ( talk) 08:31, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 12:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 12:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone 12:58, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Delete - not enough evidence to show that this rivalry is notable, so fails WP:GNG. Only one of the sources even calls this a derby, and then its just in passing in a quote from one of the managers. Ilikeeatingwaffles ( talk) 16:19, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Delete - per WP:NRIVALRY, simply playing a few times is insufficient, the article needs to show wider GNG where the notion of the rivalry is discussed (e.g. Old Firm), not simply an aggregation of a number of match reports. No indication this would ever be anything other than a stat dump. Fenix down ( talk) 16:32, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Delete - no evidence of notability. Giant Snowman 19:01, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Delete - nothing more than stats Spiderone 10:34, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
- Delete - fails GNG. Waggers TALK 13:35, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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