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The result was delete. Tone 21:41, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

West Papua national football team[edit]

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Lacking notability, fails WP:V, all the news coverage are NF-Board statistics. Hammersfan (talk) 09:28, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Hammersfan (talk) 15:50, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. —Hammersfan (talk) 16:02, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - nothing seems to have changed since the first AfD over two years ago! GiantSnowman 10:55, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete As there is already Papua New Guinea national football team West Papua wont qualify under FIFA reg. Govvy (talk) 17:31, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - not needed Spiderone 17:40, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment "Not needed" is not a valid argument for AFD. Please expand why. --AW (talk) 16:42, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • The article is practically a replica of the previously deleted articles. Spiderone 13:45, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - I added a ref showing they are a member of NF-Board. Also it doesn't matter if they'll qualify under FIFA or not. --AW (talk) 16:36, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Being on the NF-Board doesn't guarantee notability Spiderone 16:34, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Strictly speaking, I'm not especially bothered whether this or the South Moluccas or Western Sahara articles are deleted. What I want is consistency. Why should the article I did about Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (which has played more games than either of these two) be treated differently? Is it because it is Chechnya? Hammersfan, 10/10/09, 13.44 BST
• Keep - NF-board teams are notable. --SM (talk) 12:13, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep in the interest of combating systemic bias toward the developed world. matt91486 (talk) 23:57, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• What bias?!? If an article is notable, it's notable; if it's not, it's not. Geography has nothing to do with it! GiantSnowman 16:42, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as a supporter of bias against the undeveloped world. That was a joke, but this article really should be deleted as it fails the GNGs. The title of this article is actually wrong as West Papua isn't a nation. – PeeJay 13:51, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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