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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 15:32, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of teams that went undefeated through a FIFA World Cup final or qualifying tournament[edit]

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PROD contested by article creator, rationale here. My original PROD rationale was that this article fails WP:GNG and WP:SYNTH - to expand upon that, and to answer a few points raised in the PROD challenge - while a team being undefeated in the group stage of this tournament might get a one-off throwaway piece in the media, the larger topic (which this article deals with) has NOT received "significant coverage" as required by GNG; there are no in-depth articles or books or TV shows about it. Even if we found 100 news articles stating "[country] qualifies from group round of [tournament] undefeated", it would not be enough to satisfy GNG. As for the SYNTH element, what I meant by that is the part which states "do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources" which is precisely what has been done e.g. using the table format, combining the qualifying tournament data with the final tournament data etc. Overall, I do not feel this topic is notable at all. It might be interesting to some, but that is not good enough. Giant Snowman 11:31, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - completely agree with the statements above regarding SYNTH and GNG. As well as these, this stat dump of an article also contravenes WP:NOTSTATS, primarily as a result of its GNG failure. Were there significant reliable sources then this would probably not be a problem, but, as the cumbersome nature of the article title would indicate, there are not. Fenix down (talk) 11:47, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment as I stated in my PROD objection, the article was originally called List of teams undefeated in the FIFA World Cup and had a simpler structure and rationale; see this old revision. A reversion to something similar is an alternative to total deletion. jnestorius^(talk) 12:11, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I still don't think that is notable either, sorry. Giant Snowman 12:20, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
There is a full length documentary in New Zealand, called Undefeated, documenting their undefeated 2010 campaign, which is significant coverage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.215.142 (talk) 05:27, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fails stand-alone list notability criteria. Philg88 ^♦talk 14:05, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete as per SYNTH, GNG and NOTSTATS. Eldumpo (talk) 21:24, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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