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The result was delete. JohnCD (talk) 09:43, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ranking of teams in the UEFA Euro 2012 group stage[edit]

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This article repeats information in UEFA Euro 2012 and contains information about hypothetical situations thought up by the author. All of the tie-breaking criteria information is clear in the main article, and the event are now in the past, making this article redundant and unnecessary Jack Bornholm (talk) 07:31, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete - There is no need for this article as the main article mention the tie-breaking situations, and also each group article.
– HonorTheKing (talk) 10:22, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 16:41, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – an impressive piece of original research. However, it has no place in Wikipedia. – Kosm1 fent 16:55, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - OR to the extreme. Giant Snowman 16:57, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Sickening fanboy cruft. Lugnuts (talk) 17:23, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete OR, NOT#ESSAY, needless repetition of the main competition and group articles... Take your pick. - Chrism would like to hear from you 19:06, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to UEFA Euro 2012 as a plausible search term (or bits of it, anyway, such as "ranking Euro 2012"). Tonywalton ^Talk 23:39, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Interesting bit of OR but does not appear to be an independent topic that is sourced to reliable sourcings which summarises a ranking system at the group stage. --LauraHale (talk) 11:03, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect The information in the article is important but completely redundant (see UEFA Euro 2012#Group stage). Therefore, a redirect should be placed so that it appears in the search bar but is not actually another article. However, the hypothetical, even "fictive" (as the article dubs it), information should be removed entirely since by its nature it is unnecessary. Dar5995 (talk) 04:38, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.