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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 06:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FC Barcelona 5-0 Real Madrid C.F.[edit]

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Procedurally completing an AfD on behalf of an IP who completed steps 1 and 3; I assume the rationale is along the lines of "non-notable individual football game". I am neutral. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 21:29, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete – If there is any enduring significance to this particular game, I'm not seeing evidence of it in the article. From the looks of it, one famous club routed another in a match that is part of a well-known rivalry. That in itself doesn't strike me as being worthy of an article. WP:NOTNEWS is something I rarely invoke, but it's the first thing that came to my mind here. Obviously we can't have articles on every match ever played, and as I said above, I see no reason why this one is special enough to warrant a page. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 00:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and Giants2008. Wikipedia is not Sports Illustrated. Literally when I saw this here my first reaction was "You have to be joking". - The Bushranger _{Return fire}^{Flank speed} 01:03, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment The Real Madrid C.F. 2–6 FC Barcelona article, alive and undeleted since August, seems to be the precedent. This opens up great possibilities ... any match/game between two well-known teams in any sport can now be an article ... those diehards in the WP:WikiCup can now generate new DYKs by the hundreds ... Wasted Time R (talk) 01:09, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, dear lord. I've prodded that one. Probably will have to AfD it, but one can hope. - The Bushranger _{Return fire}^{Flank speed} 01:48, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As PROD was not an option any more (the article had already been PRODded), I have taken it to AfD here. --Soccer-holic^{I hear voices in my head...} 10:27, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:44, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This article has WP:RECENT written all over it. Copy the valuable parts of this match and the 2–6 affair from last season to El Clásico, if not already done. --Soccer-holic^{I hear voices in my head...} 12:37, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Soccer-holic^{I hear voices in my head...} 12:38, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - a mildly surprising result, but no notability above and beyond that of any other top-flight football match. Nowhere near to a goalscoring record, not even the biggest win in a match between these two teams! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:40, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete We seem to have arrived at consensus that major finals are notable and matches that would be included in a history of one or either club. A historian writing the history of either of these illustrious clubs in 10 years time will not spare even a word for such a routine match. No special notability - delete. --Dweller (talk) 13:02, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - what exactly is notable about this game? A team beat another team by a score that wasn't 1-0?! Big whoop. GiantSnowman 14:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - There seems to be a lot of bias coming from the Users who want the article deleted. I think if the match was between Liverpool and United most of you would think different. The build up alone was newsworthy and the match itself was a spectacle that can be shared. The article needs work and more neutrality but it is worthy of having its own article. La Fuzion (talk) 15:23, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • No, actually, we wouldn't. This isn't a case of WP:BIAS, this is a case of a football game, nothing more, nothing less. It wasn't a championship match, and it wasn't an especially historic one either. Should I create an article titled 2010 Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens game because there was news coverage of the rivalry in the leading up to the event, and because the game was memorable? - The Bushranger _{Return fire}^{Flank speed} 15:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • If Liverpool beat Man U 5-0 and there was a brief burst of people going "Ooh, that was slightly surprising", I would !vote to delete an article for that game too -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:38, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• No worries from me as I won't fight it but the bias is quite clear. Cheers. La Fuzion (talk) 15:50, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Seems like the only notable parts are the buildup to the game and how it was a spectacle. Both are arbitrary commentary and not historically relevant events. Xboxandhalo2 (talk) 17:43, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, not notable in itself. Even if the article was kept, it would need to be disambiguated because it was the fourth instance of that specific scoreline! Barcelona also beat Madrid 5–0 in 1935, 1945 and 1994. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 07:36, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to El Clásico, the article covering the rivalry between the two clubs. Oldelpaso (talk) 10:24, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and Giants2008. --El Unique (talk) 13:03, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Non-notable scheduled league match. All meetings of the two clubs have similar build-up and post-match analysis so coverage should be considered WP:ROUTINE and only reflects on the notability of El Clásico not the individual match. The surprisingly lop-sided scoreline may have prompted much hyperbole in the immediate aftermath, but ultimately this clearly fails WP:NOTNEWS & WP:EVENT. _wjemather^bigissue 14:40, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just leave it man ya geeks.--Supersewelly (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. —_wjemather^bigissue 16:51, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

--Supersewelly (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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