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The result was redirect to Laws of the Game (association football)#Current Laws of the Game. Fenix down (talk) 20:58, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Start and Restart of Play (association football)[edit]

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stub article that seems to have been created due to other sections of the FIFA laws having articles (WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. It only has a single reference and doing a cursory Google search doesn't seem to indicate there can be much more added. Prisencolin (talk) 19:32, 17 July 2020 (UTC) (categories)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:45, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or merge to somewhere I am not sure where... An separate article is not needed for this topic. Lightburst (talk) 20:07, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Laws of the Game (association football)#Current Laws of the Game along with a merge of the basic description and pointer to the other two rules, which is all the current stub really amounts to. -- ferret (talk) 20:25, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 08:29, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect as per Ferret. Giant Snowman 08:33, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as per above Spiderone 12:16, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect, This is just a small subject that cannot have a page. It's better , as described above, be redirected to to Laws of the Game (association football)#Current Laws of the Game. Alex-h (talk) 11:55, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as others have suggested, the page can't stand alone for now. It needs more independent sources to scale throughWP:GNG. Estarosmārṭ (talk) 05:27, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This is effectively a disambiguation page stemming from an anomaly in the IFAB rulebook. The presence of this article makes situations where we need to list all the Laws in order (Laws_of_the_Game_(association_football)#Current_Laws_of_the_Game, Template:Association_football, and Template:Association_football_laws a little easier. Readers are only ever going to arrive at this page from one of these lists. The annoying thing is that the Law is badly titled - there are actually several ways of restarting play and this Law, despite its name, covers only two of them. This pseudo-disambiguation page has been useful in explaining this situation to the reader, while directing them to the kick-off (association football) and dropped ball articles. It won't be too hard to work around this if this article is redirected (example) but IMO it makes things messier, and it costs little to have this psuedo-disambig article. --LukeSurl^{t c} 12:27, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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