The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. Although a vote-count would suggest that consensus is in favor of deletion, many of the arguments for removal are very weak or even non-existent. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:33, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

South Moluccas national football team[edit]

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Lacking notability, fails WP:V, all the news coverage are NF-Board statistics. Hammersfan, 04/10/09 19.54 BST

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Hammersfan (talk) 15:49, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. —Hammersfan (talk) 16:02, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Might be a good idea to adopt an all-or-none policy with these teams Template:NF-Board teams. Most articles seem to exist quite happily, though West Papua national football team is currently nominated for speedy deletion. Google does turn up bits and pieces of "coverage". Declan Clam (talk) 20:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'd be happy to keep this article, and the West Papua one, if there was some degree of consistency. However, I recently wrote an article, properly referenced so there was no danger of it failing on those grounds, on the team representing the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, and that was deleted on the grounds that it "wasn't notable enough". I raised the issue that these two articles were not up for deletion, but was told that didn't matter as each case should be looked at individually, even though these two seemingly have even less of a case. Hammersfan, 07/10/09, 10.54 BST
Delete- Doesn't seem to be more notable than Chechnya Spiderone 13:14, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - one of many unofficial 'national' teams that have nothing notable about them. Giant Snowman 14:25, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Govvy (talk) 15:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. NF-board games had had significant media coverage, more than domestic cup competitions in many countries. --SM (talk) 00:16, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per GiantSnowman. Eddie6705 (talk) 11:58, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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