Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Historic matches of the Costa Rica national football team

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The result was merge to Costa Rica national football team results. The only apparent bias in this article is removed once the datasets are put into the full context, therefore a merge is the appropriate decision here. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:05, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Historic matches of the Costa Rica national football team

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You know an article deserves deletion when its only context is within the article title. Ignoring the article title it qualifies as a CSD A1. Laun chba ller 12:11, 31 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 14:30, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 14:30, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Latin America-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 14:31, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:35, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Seems like a case of pure WP:OR. Doesn't seem to be a list of matches played but merely of "notable victories. Fenix down (talk) 23:10, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Costa Rica national football team results and change article in line with established series of articles found in Category:National association football team results. Giant Snowman 13:13, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. There was already Costa Rica national football team match results so I have moved it to Costa Rica national football team results in accordance with established naming practice. I don't see a justification for a separate 'Historic matches of the Costa Rica national football team' page but there is some content here that can be merged into 'Costa Rica national football team results'. The Whispering Wind (talk) 17:06, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In that case we should merge the articles. Giant Snowman 18:36, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - pure OR that this selection of matches is "historic" -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:20, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unnecessary content fork from Costa Rica national football team results. C 679 20:12, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Costa Rica national football team results. Nfitz (talk) 03:36, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - A merge would be inapproprate. The fundamental issue with this article is it is OR to determine what is and isn't a "historical match". To merge would add undue prominence to a number of matches. Fenix down (talk) 13:16, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see your point. All past matches are history. By definition. Simply point this article to that one and add any missing information. Nfitz (talk) 21:24, 12 January 2014 (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.