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The result was delete. JForget 01:38, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

UEA Pirates[edit]

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Per previous AFDs for Durham Saints, Edinburgh Predators, Swansea Titans and NTU Renegades. A British university American football team with little or no claim to notability. Pfainuk talk 10:34, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

delete. British University sports teams are not-inherently notable, even soccer teams have next to zero following (i.e. a handful of people go to the matches). American Football teams in the UK are even less notable. Googling UEA Pirates turns up nothing other than the team's own site and those of other University American football teams in the UK. Pit-yacker (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - This is an intersection of two pretty much non-notable things (university sport in the UK and American Football in the UK), so is very very non-notable. I work at a university and can confirm that our sports teams are very lucky if they draw a "crowd" of as many as 50 spectators...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:48, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 20:30, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete In the UK university sports are not big.Slatersteven (talk) 21:05, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete looks like a fun team, but just not notable for our purposes here. Try another Wiki. Good luck!--Paul McDonald (talk) 13:36, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I can't find anything to grant them notability. (In fact, the only British uni teams that I can think of that are notable are Team Bath F.C. (although they don't exist anymore) and Edinburgh University A.F.C.) DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 13:43, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are a few - but they're concentrated in four sports: Association Football, Rugby, Cricket and Rowing (the Oxford teams for all four are probably notable, for example). It's a very rare university team in any other sport that meets our criteria. Pfainuk talk 15:29, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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