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The result was delete. → Call me Hahc21 02:21, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Iran national football team starting XIs[edit]

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Original research and non-notable... JMHamo (talk) 01:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. JMHamo (talk) 01:05, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - ~~The article creator has been blocked for one week for a different matter, so I think this AfD should be closed after their block expires to give them a chance to have their say.~~ JMHamo (talk) 01:05, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article creator has been blocked for a further week for evasion, so I withdraw my comment above. JMHamo (talk) 23:34, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Or we could see what the consensus is from other members of the Football Project. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:35, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously JMHamo (talk) 08:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - not sure how a list of who was in the starting line-up for a bunch of matches can be said to be OR (especially given that each line-up is sourced) but it's certainly unencyclopedic -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:46, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - line ups for inherently non-notable matches, if these matches were notable in themselves then they should have their own articles, they are not so the line ups are equally not notable. Any information here can be contained within the current squad / recent call-ups section of the national team article as long as it is relevant. @ChrisTheDude: The players playing is not the OR element, what is OR is the formation, which is not provided in any of the sources. Fenix down (talk) 11:06, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for explaining the Original Research piece so succinctly Fenix down. It was late when I submitted this AfD and I should have been much clearer in my nomination rational. Thanks! JMHamo (talk) 11:33, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If the matches were notable, the article could easily be re-jigged to simply show a list of names for each match rather than a formation. Deleting the article entirely because the formations are OR would not be appropriate. As it happens I think the article should go anyway, but that is not a strong rationale to delete..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:34, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - WP:NOTSTATS to the extreme; this is an encyclopedia not a football fan site! Giant Snowman 12:07, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Non-notable, per above. --Epeefleche (talk) 18:24, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, suggest author contributes to the user-generated Transfermarkt website if they wish to take part in a fan site. C 679 18:30, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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