Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devonshire Rovers

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete all. - Mailer Diablo 07:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Devonshire Rovers

Delete. This, along with several other creations by Tranjj (talk · contribs), is an apparent hoax. Nothing shows up for an FC by this name, the only 'Devonshire Rovers' club detectable is a softball/baseball club in Sth Africa. There is no mention of a "Devonshire Rovers" in the Football Club History Database. None of the leagues/competitions the article claims this club has participated in mention it (eg supposed winners of Football League Trophy, 87 & 89). The article's creator is perhaps overreaching himself by appearing to claim 4 FA cup wins and 3 runners-up appearances, and the evidently fictional Llagered Cup is probably the best clue to the beer-goggled origins of this entry. cjllw | TALK 13:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages created by the same user purporting to be players of this club:

--cjllw | TALK 13:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. Scottmsg 14:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a hoax. The Welsh Football League official site shows no such team in Division 3, or any other division. Delete the nominated players as well. Scottmsg 14:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete load of rubbish. -- Mattythewhite 14:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, obvious hoax. Football League First Division champions? FA Cup winners? I laugh derisively. --Steve Farrell 14:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all - hoax, nonsense, even if such a club exists they are non-notable. Qwghlm 15:00, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all this is a blatant hoax, no such team exists and this team certainly did not win any of the honours claimed in the article ChrisTheDude 15:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all hoax, checked google and can find no notable team by this name. Asics talk 16:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all for being utter rubbish. Bencherlite 01:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
update: it seems that since this AfD was nominated a couple of other club aficionados have come by to edit out the obvious hoax/prank claims to replace it with a much more modest account of this club's standing- ie an amateur club playing in the West Kirby (pop. 12321 [1]) Regional Division 1. However, despite this attempted recovery from the own goal of inflated/joke claims, given that this appears to be a rather minor minor league which does not itself rate an article, my delete vote above stands per notability guidelines (not to mention, the content is presumably all original research as there's still nothing remotely resembling an independent source). Same goes for the related players' articles.--cjllw | TALK 02:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My delete vote stands too. West Kirby FC play in, and currently lead, Division 1 of the West Cheshire Football League [2] and it is inherently unlikely that West Kirby itself has a different "Regional League", let alone one with more than one Division. No independent evidence of it, anyway. Bencherlite 02:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Might be a Sunday League team, in which case it really really really isn't even the slightest bit notable. --Steve Farrell 03:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find any evidence for the existence of this league, which, as noted above, is most likely to be a Sunday morning park league if it exists at all. I stand by my !vote to delete all related articles ChrisTheDude 07:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as non-notable. The article Josh Tarbiat should probably also be added to the discussion. -- Merope 10:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed, delete that one too as it is clearly rubbish ("place of birth: Wirral, Iran"?) ChrisTheDude 10:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Quite clearly hoax. doktorb _words^deeds 11:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete all per WP:CSD#G1, patent nonsense. At best some kind of Fantasy football (soccer) team. A ecis^Brievenbus 13:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all - if this isn't a hoax, it still falls way below the accepted notability criteria. - fchd 01:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom. Archibald99 16:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please Do not delete: This team does exist though obviously the honours bit was incorrect as was the league etc though it has been edited now the person who created the page used a template from another football club's page rather than having to type out all the html code himself and now all the code has been fixed to the correct honours and league. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tranjj (talk • contribs) 11:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

.....which only serves to confirm (assuming any of it actually is true, which cannot be confirmed given the total lack of information about this club which Google turns up) that this club is wholly non-notable and does not pass any criterion for inclusion on WP. I once again stand by my !vote to delete this and all related articles ChrisTheDude 11:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The closest I can find to a source is this local results page which shows that a team called Devonshire Park (this club's supposed former name) plays in the Wirral Sunday League Division Four, which is, shall we say, ever so slightly below the threshold of notability..... ChrisTheDude 11:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all per nom. I've speedied Mark_Thorne as well. All the other player links lead to people who blatantly aren't Sunday footballers (some of them are dead - ho ho) EliminatorJR 22:40, 17 February 2007 (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.