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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 17:53, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Taunton & District Saturday Football League[edit]

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Local amateur Saturday football league of which the highest division is in the 14th tier of the English football system and the lowest division is in the 18th tier (we would never even consider having a Wikipedia article on a 14th tier local sports league in any other country)! This is in no way different to Furness Premier Football League, Mid-Somerset Football League and Guildford and Woking Alliance League all of which were deleted for failing WP:GNG and not meeting the rule of thumb outlined at WP:FOOTYN.

A Google News search only has 4 results all of which are announcements relating to the league being suspended due to COVID or resuming again following the relaxing of lockdown measures. These are all in local papers with low circulation and fails to make a case for why this league should be covered in a global encyclopaedia. Google Books doesn't seem to have anything. The Western Daily Press has 4 trivial mentions of the league as per ProQuest. I searched the British Newspaper Archive only to find that coverage was limited to the Taunton Courier. In each case, the league took up a small portion of one column on one page of the newspaper edition and the stories were trivial coverage that any local organisation gets in their local paper (announcements of monthly/annual meetings and fixtures/results listings). Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:24, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:25, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:40, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I'm not having problems finding news coverage with Google. one two - but main story is in the hardcopy only, three. And also simple results published such as four. I didn't look beyond Google, but as it goes back at least to the 1950s, there likely be coverage in other things, like the British Newspaper Archive. Nfitz (talk) 07:01, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My British Newspaper Archive search linked in my nom didn't really yield much in the way of coverage. The results round ups in the local papers linked above don't necessarily mean that the subject needs covering in a global encyclopaedia. Several leagues were deleted last year with this type of coverage such as Mid-Somerset Football League. Bear in mind that the Bridgwater Mercury also churns out articles with the same level of coverage for a local bowling club, a charity golf fundraiser and the local annual fun fair. I'm sure that we can agree that those three events don't need a Wikipedia article! Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 07:14, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your BNA search has an ampersand in the search term, and no results after the 1940s - I hadn't even realised the league was that old! If you remove it, and use [1]] instead it goes from 28 hits to 719 results. Nfitz (talk) 19:49, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't gone through every single hit but all of the ones that I have seen are all from the Taunton Courier and seem to be either passing mentions or very basic results/fixtures round ups. In my view, Wikipedia articles should have at least some relevance to a global audience and should be careful regarding WP:BIAS. This is why we don't usually need to have articles on topics purely of local interest such as the annual scarecrow trails, Easter egg hunts, school fêtes etc. even if local papers do cover them in some depth. I can see your point, though, but we may have to agree to disagree on this occasion and see what other users' views are to gain consensus. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:42, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 18:30, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:49, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 21:27, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Since no-one else seems to be commenting here, I have to vote delete for the excellent reasons put forward by the nominator. We are not supposed to be Anglospherepedia, for all that some people see that as OK, and least of all in the context of a sport which, outside Britain, is historically at least less to the fore in the Anglosphere/Commonwealth than pretty much everywhere else. RobinCarmody (talk) 18:41, 23 February 2022 (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.