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The result was delete. Anyone wanting to create a redirect to Tokelau#Sport can do so, but there is literally no content here that is useful. Stifle (talk) 11:33, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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There are no football clubs in Tokelau, as shown by this article: http://patmcguinness.blogspot.de/2012/11/footballs-twilight-zones-tokelau.html. It appears that this article was created as a hoax, and then someone realised the mistake and wrote a sentence detailing this. This topic is not WP:Notable. Orthogonal1 (talk) 01:15, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete; there should really be a speedy category for item-less lists. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 01:50, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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- How do we go about making one? Orthogonal1 (talk) 03:31, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Redirect - I wonder at times why people even bother with writing stuff like this .... Hoax or not it isn't beneficial to the project at all, The only purpose it serves is to waste my time !voting on it, That aside no evidence of notability –Davey2010 • (talk) 02:13, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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- Redirect
Delete - isn't this one of those automatic titles associated with ((Oceania topic))? Who knows - no entries means this should be deleted though. St★lwart111 02:25, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- That's find too. St★lwart111 09:03, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Surprised this wasn't deleted earlier. Most likely a hoax article, and useless since the August edit. --The one that forgot (talk) 05:30, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- @Orthogonal1: RSSSF is highly reliable and very well-respected, so we should trust that priamrily, especially over a blog! GiantSnowman 09:29, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Ah, okay, thanks. I wasn't sure about the reliability of a Usenet newsgroup, but it seems that they have reliable sources themselves. Orthogonal1 (talk) 09:56, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - non notable, the brief list of clubs could and should be covered elsewhere. GiantSnowman 09:30, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- @GiantSnowman: Most lists for topics relating to Oceanic countries are not very long, due to the relative lack of people, for example the "Lists of newspapers in xxx" articles, and this does not seem to present a problem. In any case, if it could be covered elsewhere, it would probably best to do a merger, leaving a redirect instead of deleting the article outright. Orthogonal1 (talk) 09:56, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Tokelau#Sport - even if a couple of clubs do exist (and this seems to be debatable), I don't think a standalone article is justified -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:58, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect - per ChrisTheDude. Now the article has been corrected there is obviously some level of football. Probably worth a sentence in that article but am not convinced there is any notability to any club from this country. Fenix down (talk) 15:13, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect - as Fenix down said, because the article's been corrected a bit, it shows that there is a bit of football in Tokelau. Because the subject of this article is related to Tokelau#Sport, I think that a redirect would be most suitable. -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 15:26, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, if it isn't a hoax, then it's just a useless list. Don't redirect, because the "sport" section of Tokelau has no mention of these clubs, or football for that matter. --AmaryllisGardener talk 16:12, 28 November 2014 (UTC) Redirect to Tokelau#Sport, now that the football clubs are mentioned in the section. --AmaryllisGardener talk 15:07, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I've added mention of the clubs to the sport section. Orthogonal1 (talk) 20:33, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Snow delete - Apparent hoax article that utterly fails notability, even if it isn't a hoax. No prejudice against a redirect being created, but delete the hoaxy rubbish first, please. I would trust RSSSF over a blog any time. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 16:22, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Your argument seems slightly confused - the current content of the article, which you refer to as "hoaxy rubbish", comes from RSSSF. Also, you can't have a "snow delete" when several of the !voters haven't !voted to delete............ -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:16, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- You could have a snow delete, because you could just delete it and create a fresh redirect. Also, I don't refer to the current content of the article as that - more the history of it being filled with hoaxy rubbish. I can see how that comment can be misunderstood, though; my wording was pretty poor. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 01:35, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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