Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liverpool F.C. (Superleague Formula team)
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- 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 keep. I see a consensus to Keep this article but an acknowledgement that this article needs some serious improvement. I hope editors interested in keeping this article can help out with this task. Liz Read! Talk! 23:32, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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Same case to past nominations - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canada SailGP Team and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Acceleration Team China
Unnecessary
WP:CFORK
of teams that never was independently notable and existed solely to the short-lived series, like the XFL. Like the ill-fated American football league, the teams collapsed with it. Unlike that league, it lived without fanfare and died without an embarrassing death, witnessed by nobody but a Wikiproject taskforce that existed for creating articles like this. However, the teams operating it maybe is notable.
Going straight onto the nomination, this amongst all articles about the other teams in this series serves only to appeal to the most ardent fans per
WP:BEFORE
turns out mainly articles about the short-lived series beside one article by a hobbyist website run by students (Merseysportlive), this offers nothing new as its content is plagiarised from this page. Britsonpole is another hobbyist site - this look as if it is regurgitated from press releases.
Speaking of the
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) are pretty thin.
Overall, this like all the teams linked to football teams, may pass
WP:GNG in 2008 when notability guidelines was lax, but will it in 2024? SpacedFarmer (talk) 19:19, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Football, Motorsport, and United Kingdom. SpacedFarmer (talk) 19:19, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations and England. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:10, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep - I believe that all of the SF team pages should remain, as a usual summary of the performances, regardless that the series lasted only 3-4 years. Are you suggesting that all of the A1 Grand Prix country team pages are also not notable? Officially Mr X (talk) 10:37, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- WP:ILIKEIT sums this up, you are right with A1GP though. SpacedFarmer (talk) 11:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)]
- Procedural keep I feel the article although weak on sources can be a weak keep, but due to the Topic ban at ]
- Keep per above. Lacks live sources but I see no apparent notability issue. To compare series of such different importance as SF and FA1, especially for a team that was champion is risible. MSport1005 (talk) 23:22, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
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