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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 02:22, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Prekmurje–Styria derby[edit]

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Fails notability, none of the 15 sources are about the so-called rivarly, googling doesnt provide any significant coverage; the main result for "štajersko-prekmurski derbi" is a volleyball match between some obscure teams, white there are almost no results for football match (and even those few results are just routine match reports). Snowflake91 (talk) 21:11, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete - fails WP:GNG; also see WP:NRIVALRY Spiderone 13:33, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 19:48, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - fails WP:NRIVALRY, no evidence of GNG. Simply because two teams play each other regularly does not create a de facto rivalry. Even if there is a rivalry, it has to be demonstrated that this has received significant, reliable coverage as a notion in itself, not simply the synthesis of a series of match reports. Fenix down (talk) 11:11, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - article is well referenced and cited. True it does not appear that there is much of a rivalry between the two clubs compared to other instances, but I think the information is useful and should be kept. At the very worst part of the text and sources should be merged into the two club articles. Inter&anthro (talk) 22:57, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – (Almost) the same text is already at NK Maribor#Rivalries for several years. Its true that the article is well-sourced, but all sources are completely out of context, none of the sources are direclty about the rivalry itself, for example the 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th reference confirms that one club was disbanded and re-eastblished (nothing to do with a rivarly, so basically half of the references are about the year in which the club(s) were established), the second source is head-to-head statistics, third and four reference is not about football at all but about Gross domestic product of the region, 12th reference is another H2H statistics etc. Snowflake91 (talk) 09:18, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Snowflake, whilst the article looks well referenced, there is nothing there which discusses the rivalry as a notion in itself. At best there are references to match reports which are used to synthesise discussion of a rivalry. Furthermore just because something is interesting is never a reason to keep an article. Fenix down (talk) 09:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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