Talk:Tamil Eelam national football team

Requested move

Tamil Eelam national football team → Tamil Eelam football team – Not a national team. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 12:37, 3 July 2012 (UTC) --Blackknight12 (talk) 05:59, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 23:19, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose - I object for two reasons - the definition of a nation and consistency. A nation is defined as "a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history" (Wkipedia) or "a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history etc" (Collins dictionary). A nation does not need to be an independent sovereign state. The Tamils of Sri Lanka have long considered themselves a separate nation, long before they started agitating for an independent sovereign state. Wikipedia has a good article on Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism - how can there be nationalism without a nation? There are more than 50 nations that aren't independent sovereign states that have "national football team" articles: American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Basque Country, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brittany, Catalonia, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Corsica, Curaçao, Darfur, England, Faroe Islands, French Guiana, Galicia, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, Hong Kong, Iraqi Kurdistan, Isle of Man, Macau, Martinique, Mayotte, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Northern Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Northern Mariana Islands, Occitania, Padania, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Sahrawi, Saint Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Scotland, Sealand, Silesia, Sint Maarten, Tahiti, Tibet, Turks and Caicos Islands, Two Sicilies, United States Virgin Islands, Wales, Wallis and Futuna and Zanzibar. If Tamil Eelam doesn't qualify to be called a "national football team" because it isn't an independent sovereign state, then neither do any of those. Singling out this article for renaming while allowing other nations who aren't independent sovereign states to have "national football team" articles seems like a politically motivated move. (Please also see related page move discussion).--obi2canibe^{talk contr} 12:45, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Comment I do agree with you on that if one is moved all other pages should be moved. But I must remind you not all Tamils think this way, however that is a conversation for another day.--Blackknight12 (talk) 08:33, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose per Obi2canibe. That's a pretty exhaustive list, so I'm inclined not to disturb the current order. --BDD (talk) 19:49, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
• Support - This is not a national team, in that it is not affiliated to FIFA or any continental football confederation. The "country" itself doesn't have any official status, so how can it have a "national team"? – PeeJay 00:30, 6 July 2012 (UTC)