The result was delete. Drmies ( talk) 02:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
This was recently listed for deletion as part of a group of articles at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A62 derby. Though it was closed as no consensus, I'm relisting this article as there were no particular claims made for its notability in that debate, which got swamped by the discussion of other articles.
There is little to no evidence that this rivalry exists. The page, which is unsourced, mentions only one match, from the Hampshire Senior Cup, a low priority competition typically contested by the reserve teams of professional clubs and local semi-professional teams. A search via the fchd finds just four seasons in which the clubs were in the same league, of which two were in the regional, semi-professional Isthmian League and two in the mixed pro/semi-pro National League, both of which are well down the English football system. One of the clubs, Farnborough, have never competed as a professional team.
Beyond this lack of evidence of the rivalry existing, there is none of its notability. The general notability guidelines require independent sources, but none are offered on the page and none seem to exist; there is little evidence that the phrase has cachet beyond this Wikipedia article. Wikipedia's rivalry notability states that "Sports rivalries are not inherently notable. Articles on sports rivalries, such as Yankees–Red Sox rivalry, should satisfy the general notability guideline, " and this page falls well short of that. Super Nintendo Chalmers ( talk) 08:48, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
The result was delete. Drmies ( talk) 02:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
This was recently listed for deletion as part of a group of articles at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A62 derby. Though it was closed as no consensus, I'm relisting this article as there were no particular claims made for its notability in that debate, which got swamped by the discussion of other articles.
There is little to no evidence that this rivalry exists. The page, which is unsourced, mentions only one match, from the Hampshire Senior Cup, a low priority competition typically contested by the reserve teams of professional clubs and local semi-professional teams. A search via the fchd finds just four seasons in which the clubs were in the same league, of which two were in the regional, semi-professional Isthmian League and two in the mixed pro/semi-pro National League, both of which are well down the English football system. One of the clubs, Farnborough, have never competed as a professional team.
Beyond this lack of evidence of the rivalry existing, there is none of its notability. The general notability guidelines require independent sources, but none are offered on the page and none seem to exist; there is little evidence that the phrase has cachet beyond this Wikipedia article. Wikipedia's rivalry notability states that "Sports rivalries are not inherently notable. Articles on sports rivalries, such as Yankees–Red Sox rivalry, should satisfy the general notability guideline, " and this page falls well short of that. Super Nintendo Chalmers ( talk) 08:48, 22 August 2016 (UTC)