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The result was redirect to Tottenham Hotspur F.C.#Support. Although I recognize calls to merege, there's nothing sourced to merge. Delete and redirect is clear policy-based consensus (✉→BWilkins←✎) 11:22, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yid Army[edit]

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Non-encyclopedic and unsourced (and where sources are given they do not support the text) MrStoofer (talk) 14:57, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• My vote is strongly Delete:

1. The article is factually wrong that "Yid Army" is the name of a group of hooligans. It is a name that Spurs supporters call themselves.

2. The source given for the claim that "The Yids is the name of a football hooligan firm associated with English football club Tottenham Hotspur" (here) says no such thing. It does refer to supporters of Tottenham Hotspur as "Yid Army" (not "Yids") and more importantly does not support the claim that the term refers to hooligans rather than supporters generally.

3. All the rest of the claims on the page are unsourced and unsupported (e.g. the claim of membership of 250+ or the claims about enthinicity).

I strongly suspect that this is page was simply self aggrandizement. MrStoofer (talk) 14:59, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. MrStoofer (talk) 15:09, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per MrStoofer. öBrambleberry of RiverClan 15:11, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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• Merge and redirect to Tottenham Hotspur F.C.#Support, no evidence of independent notability. GiantSnowman 15:24, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect per Giant Snowman. --Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 16:50, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/redirect per GiantSnowman. The use of the term "yid" or "yiddo" as a form of self-identification by Tottenham supporters is something that has attracted attention and debate in the media (e.g. [1]), but not to the extent where a separate article is required. Oldelpaso (talk) 17:12, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete How can you merge poor content which clearly has no sourcing. I am against any merge as there is a clear lack of evidence to support that any Yid Army hooligan firm is active or has done any thing of significance. There is enough information in the #support section and doesn't need to be cluttered with useless content. Govvy (talk) 20:05, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. The term is commonly used by the club's supporters in reference to themselves, not a tiny collection of men boys. Walls of Jericho (talk) 00:55, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and redirect - I don't think this content should be merged into the Tottenham Hotspur article, but if this name is something the supporters refer to themselves as, we should redirect to Tottenham Hotspur F.C.#Support as a a likely search term. Mentoz86 (talk) 09:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I didn't think about the name as a search term, but that makes sense to redirect per Mentoz suggestion. Govvy (talk) 14:59, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Poorly written - but references are available here and here. --Egghead06 (talk) 18:52, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I also agree that after deletion, the page should redirect to Tottenham Hotspur F.C.#Support as a likely search term MrStoofer (talk) 15:37, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Tottenham Hotspur F.C.#Support, per Mentoz86, no new content needed, especially as nominator has changed position to this solution. --Bejnar (talk) 17:10, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to Tottenham Hotspur F.C.#Support. --Egghead06 (talk) 01:01, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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