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The result was delete. May be restored for merging purposes if there's consensus to do so.  Sandstein  21:41, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UEFA Euro 2008 controversies[edit]

UEFA Euro 2008 controversies (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Article contains only details of a few extremely minor mildly controversial refereeing decisions, which to be frank occur in all football tournaments. All can be mentioned in the articles which cover the specific matches, eg UEFA Euro 2008 Group C or in the main tournament article, there is no need for an article listing them. ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:47, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:48, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge, or what I should call it... Incorporate the things into their groups or a controversies section in the main article. — chandler — 07:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Some material can maybe incorporated into other articles but one must be careful of WP:WEIGHT. The material does certainly not warrant it's own article however. - Shudde ^talk 08:00, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - use of the word "controversy" in a Wikipedia article's title is prima facie evidence of inherent POV problems. Sceptre ^(talk) 08:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The first two incidents aren't even controversial as they are both correct refereeing decisions. Including this on Wikipedia drags us down to the level of the tabloid paper which needs to make everything controversial to get a headline. пﮟოьεԻ 57 09:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Does not merit its own article. They should be mentioned in the main article. --Albert.white (talk) 11:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 13:13, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with UEFA Euro 2008 seeding#Controversy. Not nearly notable enough to have it's own article. Buc (talk) 15:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge The controversies were legitimate, but should be incorporated to the main Euro 2008 page. If baseball, basketball, and football controversies warrant sections in articles, soccer should not be excluded. Trichrome 10:56, 17 June 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trichrome (talk • contribs) [reply]
• Keep Controversy, especially in a big tournament, is important to the ongoing development of the administration and official body of football. --Mr Accountable (talk) 18:57, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - fails WP:POV pretty much by default. No-one can specify the millions of decisions taken before, during and after the tournament as more or less controversial than others. Peanut4 (talk) 01:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - these decisions are unlikely to have any lasting notability (how many 'controversial decisions' from Euro 2004 are still memorable today?). Any that do can be incorporated into the main Euro 2008 article. Terraxos (talk) 22:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - as 2006 FIFA World Cup controversies article shows, this kind of articles can be expanded and improved, and there can be quite a lot of controversies to present.  ARTYOM  03:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • The article can only be expanded if there are actually lots of controversial incidents to write about! So far in this tournament, judging from the article, we appear to have had two dodgy offside decisions and one questionable penalty for a shirt tug, and that's it. That level of "controversy" in a football tournament is, frankly, completely inconsequential -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:03, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • As long as there are controversies, the article has the right to exist. And the tournament is not over yet, so, who knows, there might be a lot of new controversies coming up.  ARTYOM  16:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • So by that argument, should we have a "....controversies" fork article for every football tournament that's ever occurred? After all, they've probably all had a couple of dodgy offside calls -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:05, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - only minor controversies so far. They could be incorporated on match pages, if necessary. Karma-AH (talk) 13:39, 21 June 2008 (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.