Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tuvalu national under-20 football team

Tuvalu national under-20 football team

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I have no reason to doubt that there is technically a Tuvalu U-20 team, but as the article indicates they have never played a competitive fixture, they would appear to fail WP:GNG inherently. Unlike the U-17 team also nominated for deletion, they do not even appear to have entered any level of the Tuvalu domestic cups either. I can find no evidence that they have ever played any form of competitive football and so exist only on paper. Fenix down (talk) 09:29, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Next year in 2013, they participate for the first time at a tournament. OFC U-20 Championship in 2013. For this reason I have also made this Article. --Klant01 (talk) 12:41, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. Please see this. Articles should not be created simply because they will come into existence at some point in the future. I am sure the U-17 team will play fixtures and when they do then that team may become notable. At the moment, as you have said yourself, they do exist only on paper and so the article should be deleted, or at best userfied so you can work on it in your userspace and promote it to the article page when it becomes relevant. Fenix down (talk) 17:27, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 09:31, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Football in Tuvalu - no evidence of independent notability. Wait until the team actually starts competing. GiantSnowman 09:36, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I get what you mean. Itself game them over a couple months, if Article becomes removes I will produce, if they have played a international Game. --Klant01 (talk) 21:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 00:10, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:26, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oceania-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:26, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Wifione ^Message 02:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Football in Tuvalu. The team isn't currently notable and there's an obvious merge target; it could be easily re-created if it became notable, but that's some way off. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:27, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge does seem to be the best thing to do, if they do play fixtures as anticipated in the near future then the page can be readily recreated. Fenix down (talk) 13:49, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]