Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Munster Junior Club Football Championship

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus with leave to speedy renominate. Relisted twice and since Sandstein didn't find a sufficient consensus to ring this up 8 days ago, I'm going to close it that way. Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:17, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Munster Junior Club Football Championship

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This championship lacks requisite multiple independent substantial RS coverage. Article creator has been blocked for over 2 years for repeatedly creating inappropriate articles. Epeefleche (talk) 20:39, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:45, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 11:05, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator (fails WP:GNG). Gaelic football is one of the two most popular spectator sports in the Republic of Ireland, and senior level games receive a lot of coverage. However, it's hard to find much coverage of the second level intermediate games, and the third-level junior teams rarely seem to get more than results listings in local papers. (for a list of levels, see Gaelic football#Leagues_and_team_structure). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:39, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I believe that the Junior & Intermediate grades do get much coverage. The local papers cover these in major detail. Since the creation of provincial & All-Ireland competitions for clubs at these levels, interest & coverage have grown. One saw this especially with the recent semi-final of the All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship between Dromid Pearses & Derrytrask. The national pagers & media interest is now very high. --Pmunited (talk) 17:32, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have not seen much coverage myself, and although I am not a sports fan (so wouldn't usually seek it out) have been looking today at the websites of both local and national newspapers. I found nothing of any significance, and have had no more luck with the search terms suggested by your comment. The coverage of that match seems to be overwhelmingly related to the mass brawl which made national headlines(e.g. [1], [2], [3]). That may be enough to justify coverage of that one match (tho WP:NOTNEWSPAPER suggests caution), but it does not seem to me to be evidence of wider substantial coverage.

I readily accept that I may have looked in the wrong places, so if anyone wants to provide some evidence of ongoing substantial coverage of junior level matches, that would be very helpful. If you are right that national pagers & media interest is now very high, then it should not be hard to find. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:10, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 17:19, 12 February 2012 (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.