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The result was merge to Football in Tuvalu. Wifione ^Message 02:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tuvalu national under-17 football team[edit]

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This is an article on a "national" football team that has not ever played any games against other international sides. Article specifically states this and says that their only competitive fixtures to date are in the reserve strands of one of the national cups. Not sure that there can be any notability to an international team that has yet to play any international games and if you treat them as a club team, since they have only entered the reserve strand of the national cup, not the main part, they would appear to fail WP:FOOTYN. Fenix down (talk) 09:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep That is true Fenix down! But this team will participate next year, according to me in January for the first time at a tournament. OFC U-17 Championship in 2013. Then it would be strange remove this Article. Because they are now already with the preparations busy. --Klant01 (talk) 12:39, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. Please see this. Articles should not be created simply because they will come into existence at some point in the future. I am sure the U-17 team will play fixtures and when they do then that team may become notable. At the moment, as you have said yourself, they do exist only on paper and so the article should be deleted, or at best userfied so you can work on it in your userspace and promote it to the article page when it becomes relevant. Fenix down (talk) 17:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 09:31, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Football in Tuvalu - no evidence of independent notability. Wait until the team actually starts competing. GiantSnowman 09:36, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I get what you mean. Itself game them over three months, if Article becomes removes I will produce, if they have played a international Game. --Klant01 (talk) 21:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 00:11, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:28, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oceania-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:28, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect As the article is unreferenced I would prefer redirecting to Football in Tuvalu. Is the Merge comment suggesting some (or all) of the article would actually be copied there? Eldumpo (talk) 17:22, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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