The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 21:19, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
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This is a club season article about a team that played in the Great Lakes Premier League, a regional amateur league in the United States, not a top professional league as required by WP:NSEASONS. If the United States Soccer Federation were to have officially classified this league and followed standards used in most other countries, it would not even have been a Division V league. Second, WP:NSEASONS says that "[t]eam season articles should consist mainly of well-sourced prose" [emphasis in original], and while this article does contain significant prose, it is far from well-sourced. There are five references given in the article other than those included in game boxscores. Three of those five do not support the statements to which they are attached. Another is clearly WP:ROUTINE, since it is an article written about the team's opponent. That leaves the reference that supports the team's average home attendance as the sole source cited that actually supports a statement made in the article and does not come from routine coverage. It is questionable whether there is enough independent, reliable coverage that can be used to support the information the article presents. Without any meaningful citations, there is a legitimate concern that this article may be almost entirely original research. Without significant coverage, the article fails to rise to the level needed to satisfy the presumption of notability under WP:GNG. That guideline indicates that even where an article achieves the presumption of notability, the results of a common-sense discussion should prevail. Common sense tells me that the 2015 season of a club that played in a regional amateur league comprising five clubs is not notable enough to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia. The article's first deletion nomination resulted in a Procedural keep. Taxman1913 ( talk) 06:40, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 21:19, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
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This is a club season article about a team that played in the Great Lakes Premier League, a regional amateur league in the United States, not a top professional league as required by WP:NSEASONS. If the United States Soccer Federation were to have officially classified this league and followed standards used in most other countries, it would not even have been a Division V league. Second, WP:NSEASONS says that "[t]eam season articles should consist mainly of well-sourced prose" [emphasis in original], and while this article does contain significant prose, it is far from well-sourced. There are five references given in the article other than those included in game boxscores. Three of those five do not support the statements to which they are attached. Another is clearly WP:ROUTINE, since it is an article written about the team's opponent. That leaves the reference that supports the team's average home attendance as the sole source cited that actually supports a statement made in the article and does not come from routine coverage. It is questionable whether there is enough independent, reliable coverage that can be used to support the information the article presents. Without any meaningful citations, there is a legitimate concern that this article may be almost entirely original research. Without significant coverage, the article fails to rise to the level needed to satisfy the presumption of notability under WP:GNG. That guideline indicates that even where an article achieves the presumption of notability, the results of a common-sense discussion should prevail. Common sense tells me that the 2015 season of a club that played in a regional amateur league comprising five clubs is not notable enough to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia. The article's first deletion nomination resulted in a Procedural keep. Taxman1913 ( talk) 06:40, 10 October 2018 (UTC)