Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Machar Kounyuk United FC

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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 20:57, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Machar Kounyuk United FC

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I'm not an expert on the notability of sports teams, but this looks like a local, amateur club, and the article was created as a coatrack to support a now-deleted article on its manager. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:03, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment - Assuming the content of the article is accurate and some sources are added, this probably okay. The article claims that the club plays in South Sudan's top division, which is a generally accepted threshold for notability. Of course, the article is unsourced at present, meaning none of its content carries any weight. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:08, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - playing in a country's top-level league is usually grounds for 'automatic' notability, but I cannot actually verify this club's existence. The only source is a Facebook page, a Google search brings up nothing, and on Wikipedia they are not listed at either South Sudan Football Championship or List of football clubs in South Sudan. Possible hoax? Giant Snowman 08:26, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt the whole thing is a hoax, there is just some puffery going on in a rather clueless attempt to force content on this team and its manager onto Wikipedia. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:15, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting here that I have blocked the user who created this, and another admin did a rangeblock on all the IP addresses they were using to add nonsense to this article and a few others. I'm halfway tempted to just IAR delete this right now as I don't feel we can trust anything it says, but as the nominator I guess I probably shouldn't. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:43, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I can find nothing at all about this club apart from its Wikipedia article, Facebook, and other wikis/mirrors (including searching for "Machar Kunyuk"). It has no sources and there's no evidence that it's in the South Sudan Football Championship, and without that I don't see how it can be kept. Mr Potto (talk) 12:56, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no indication to support the claims in this article being true. Not necessarily a hoax, but I'm not convinced this is a top-flight club. Fenix down (talk) 08:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder if @Northamerica1000: could explain why they thought this merited relisting at all. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:38, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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