The result was merge to Bengaluru FC. The Bushranger One ping only 22:38, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
The main bulk of the content and citations are directly copied from main article about the club. A separate article is not needed for such a young club. I recommend deletion and merge the little content back to Bengaluru FC. Govvy (talk) 19:38, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
And, as I noted below, the article creator did not actually cut and paste any material from the article on the club. Rather they created 14k of valid, coherent, properly referenced brand new material. Geo Swan (talk) 19:46, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
Nope. The record shows Coderzombie wrote the first draft, of about 14K, on 2016-05-31. If this were an actual fork, we would see something like 10-14K trimmed from the main article. The record shows Coderzombie did edit the article about the club, on that date, but their edits [1], [2], were merely relatively minor mundane copy-editing.
So, this part of the merge suggestions is based on a misconception. Coderzombie's creation of this article followed seven routine copy editing changes to the article about the club. They cut nothing from the main article to create this article. It seems to me that the creation of 14k of coherent and properly documented content is something we should applaud.
A general theme of those calling for delete or merge seems to be that the topic of the history of this sports club just doesn't seem significant enough to merit a standalone wikipedia article. But wait a second, we are supposed to rely on GNG and other notability guidelines, when determining notability. Sufficient references that cover a topic in detail is the gold standard there. I don't remember any deletion or notability policy or guideline that says we should rely a feeling that a topic just doesn't seem significant enough to merit an article to determine notability.
Sorry, no offense, but basing an AFD opinion on whether a topic SEEMS significant is an instance of a lapse from the good advice at WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
The main article is already pretty long. As are 2013–14 Bengaluru FC season, 2014–15 Bengaluru FC season, 2015–16 Bengaluru FC season, 2016–17 Bengaluru FC season, and they seem coherent and well referenced, as well. Forking off subtopics, when a main topic is already long is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Merge proponents routinely overlook the serious disadvantages of unnessary merges.
Wow. That is a new one on me.