Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/People's Club

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The result was DELETE. postdlf (talk) 22:14, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

People's Club

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List of clubs deemed by someone (the author, I would imagine) as being 'People's Clubs.' No independent sources back that assumption. A check for sources about the English "people's club" (since I can't read any other language) seems to be all Liverpool forums and blogs about Everton F.C. (a cross-town rival to Liverpool F.C) and their failed attempt to trademark the term. Seems entirely non-notable. Achowat (talk) 18:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:00, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:01, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Seems to be entirely original research. I don't see how anyone can rank a team as being a People's Club. Based on what? There doesn't seem to be any kind of criteria other than "is a name given to association football clubs in a region for fan support". Doesn't seem to be an official title or anything. Surely all medium to large clubs can claim to have fan support in a region? Del_♉sion23 (talk) 02:40, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - OR supporting poorly defined term not in common usage -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:27, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all above. Whatever the article creator has in mind, they haven't clearly explained the criteria for determining whether a football club should be classified as a "people's club", nor have they provided sources to show that the clubs listed here are called "people's clubs". --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:55, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as Chris says, this is not in wide use at all - as the lack of reliable sources shows. Giant Snowman 12:18, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unreferenced OR. Fenix down (talk) 10:43, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - list criteria not clear and no references given for the term itself. --Jameboy (talk) 15:49, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - WP:OR and not notable. Mentoz86 (talk) 18:24, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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