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The result was keep (non-admin closure). —Mythdon 06:54, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

TFC Academy[edit]

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Youth sports league which fails WP:GNG and WP:BRANCH, almost all youth leagues are non-notable, and "[a]s a general rule, the individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not considered notable enough to warrant a separate article - unless they are substantially discussed by reliable independent sources that extend beyond the chapter's local area." SanAnMan (talk) 15:28, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy Keep - is this some kind of joke? Since when was a 4th tier league team (not player - but TEAM) not notable? Nfitz (talk) 17:27, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Major League Soccer team academies can't be considered to be part of a local youth sports league, but I suppose you can't call them a completely professional development team either. It's somewhere in between. Any useful info could be merged into the professional team's page, but I would point out that there are many Wikipedia pages for the academy programs of European teams, which could be considered for deletion as well (unless they're considered more notable although a quick glance shows most of them are about as informative as the pages for the MLS academies). Lhts120 (talk) 21:33, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 17:35, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 17:35, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone 15:49, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge and redirect - this is not a US 4th tier team (notable), this is a Canadian 3rd tier team (not notable). FYI @Nfitz:. GiantSnowman 08:08, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Not notable, but in the same league as US 4th tier teams that are notable? Or did I miss something there ... Nfitz (talk) 11:42, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Ignoring that issue, I've seen a lot of media coverage over the years about the academy, I didn't attempt to dig any of it out, as I assumed this was such a cut-and-dry case. Do we really have to go down that road? Nfitz (talk) 11:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep It's not a youth league, not a league at all, and not an individual chapter of a national organization. I don't know what nominator's point is. In any case, it satisfies WP:GNG per Nfitz. Smartyllama (talk) 12:45, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The nominator of this AfD (and several other like it) seems to have mistaken MLS professional development and reserve teams for "youth leagues" -- this and all of the other AfDs from this crop are fundamentally misinformed. A Train^talk 23:11, 4 September 2016 (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.