The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Despite the AfD being open for some time, no one has provided any sources to say why this is a notable match. Simply that it is a country's first does not make it inherently notable if there has been no reporting beyond routine match reports. Not sure there is anything worth merging to the Balkan cup article at the moment. Fenix down (talk) 08:32, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

1946 Albania v Yugoslavia football match[edit]

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No notability at all. Fails WP:NSPORTSEVENT. Vanjagenije (talk) 11:46, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge to 1946 Balkan Cup, if another source can be found to support the information (just a match database at the moment, the Serbian link is broken.) It doesn't state it was the opening match of the 1946 Balkan Cup in the article. The stadium's inauguration is also interesting, and some mentions of the event can be listed there. I thought this might be best covered in period sources but couldn't find any mentions of it online and in Serbo-Croatian, which admittedly is a small sample size, but Yugoslavia and Albania had decent relations in 1946 and there's undoubtedly coverage of it somewhere - the Albanian historical football site has photos from two of the other matches in the tournament. SportingFlyer talk 11:42, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability. Giant Snowman 16:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:37, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Notable match, first matches of England, Scotland etc. also exist. Deleting this would be a discriminate act of only furthering the systemic bias (not the first instance against Albanian or Yugoslav football topic). Linhart (talk) 17:24, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Linhart: Can you provide reliable sources with significant coverage (WP:GNG)? Vanjagenije (talk) 18:16, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Of course I can, but not if it will be deleted. I have to go to our local library. Linhart (talk) 18:55, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how deletion of a Wikipedia article can affect your ability to go to the library. Vanjagenije (talk) 17:52, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If the article is deleted, than I don't have to go there as you cannot add sources if the article is nonexistent. My point was that instead of putting AfDs just ping me or others at Wikiproject Yugoslavia or Wikiproject Football and we will gladly provide sources. Linhart (talk) 20:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm in favor of a merge, we could also draftify the article. SportingFlyer talk 00:38, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 14:48, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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