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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 13:17, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nunavut national football team

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Nunavut is a sub-division of Canada and as such can't have a "national" soccer team. Nor could I find any indication that there is a territorial team. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 20:19, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reason:

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 22:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Candidates for deletion. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 23:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~ I don't know how to put it better than CambridgeBayWeather, however interesting to note that the Prince Edward Island national soccer team says it played in the 2007 Island Games. While this shows them as participating in the games (only 5 of 14) Football at the Island Games does not list them as participating in soccer.--kelapstick (talk) 22:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RSSSF has PEI playing in the 2007 Island games Women's section, which we don't currently cover in a lot of articles. Still a bit dubious with nothing else to go on tho. Nanonic (talk) 12:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note Quebec national football team was originally created, then moved to Quebec national soccer team, deleted as an expired PROD. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 23:25, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Note that these are a subset of a large number of "fringe" teams created by Stanza13. In most (all?) cases, he used http://www.fedefutbol.net/ as his source, where these teams are listed as "Otras posibles federaciones - Potencial N.F.-Board". That "potential" is hardly reliable for a citation, in my opinion. If you look at the Nunavut, Quebec, and PEI pages, contact information for each association is listed, but in all these cases (and probably several more), clicking on the "ficha de datos" tab on the left hand side brings up a "No existe histórico de partidos para esta federación" message, which means that they probably have never played a single match. On that basis, they should be deleted. I would also encourage a review of many of those other team articles that Stanza13 created. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:06, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There doesn't seem to be any mention of a national team on the Quebec Federation's website (just an "elite programme" for a select few players). Ditto for Prince Edward Island, and the Nunavut federation doesn't even have a website. I think it's safe to say these all fail the verifiability test at the very least. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 09:38, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Having seen Andrwsc remarks I found this list of Provincial Associations / Associations provinciales from the Canadian Soccer Association. I also noticed that we have several provincial associations, see Newfoundland and Labrador Soccer Association and the rest are linked from there. Would it then make sense to move Prince Edward Island national soccer team to Prince Edward Island Soccer Association, stub it and then delete Prince Edward Island national soccer team? The same for Quebec but with the Nunavut one turn it into a redirect to the CSA. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 15:54, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Move PEI & QUE, delete Nunavut (delete the page not the territory) The move for PEI and Quebec make sense to me. I don't see any reason to keep the Nunavut National Team as a redirect though, as you stated Nunavut is a territory and therefore cannot have a national team, so realistically nobody should be looking for it. Since we would be presumably speedily deleting the PEI and Quebec national team as implausible typos, I don't know why we would keep the Nunavut National team, although creating Nunavut Territory Soccer Team or something similar as a redirect to CSA would make sense.--kelapstick (talk) 16:06, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Bettia. Giant Snowman 23:52, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Govvy (talk) 20:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The only possible reason given for notability is participation at the Island Games, which, if I could be bothered, I would nominate for deletion itself as being unnotable. Phil Bridger (talk) 00:55, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom: "Nunavut is a sub-division of Canada and as such can't have a "national" soccer team". Rosiestep (talk) 02:06, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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