Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dancing farmers
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The result of the debate was to delete the article. --Canderson7 17:50, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
This was tagged for speedy deletion as "patent nonsense", but it doesn't seem like nonsense so I'm listing it here. Coffee 17:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Googling for Harrogathshire, the region where this team are said to play, returns nothing. "Old Catton", the town where this team are said to play, does exist but is part of Norwich, in Norfolk, England [1] [2]. A search for "Itsagoal League" turns up "an online football manager game" [3] [4]. I find it improbable that any team playing in "Division 27" would be able to pay "2.2 million" for a player, even if it's 2.2 million Zimbabwean Dollars. In any event, this article is non-notable and possibly simply vanity on the part of "Alex James", who is said to be this team's current manager. Sliggy 18:43, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Paul Klenk 21:23, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- delete, apparent hoax, thanks for the research Sliggy. Kappa 22:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree - John Bowndre - Ive seen them play, no idea about the harrogathshire part nor the 2.2 million, they're a sunday league team 4D in Norfolk. They do have an Irish striker, 1/8 th apparently , met him in the local pub when our team played them at Old Catton Sports Ground. Don't delete, we need some humour in our lives (albeit in the form of a Sundayleague team)
Ronnie Piles; just a team by the looks of it. Seems a good idea to put teams up on Wilki, so locals wanting to play for an SL can find one. I found this looking for Sunday League divisions. If more teams did this the better. Disagree with deletion.
- Alex James - Thankyou for your concerns about this being a hoax, you've shown how speedy you can detect jokes and fakes. However this is no fraud. I do manage a 4D sunday league team called Dancing Farmers FC. We are an amateur club in the Old Catton part of Norwich. 4C next season for sure. Don't delete this page because it could be useful to people such as above, and also it is a lot better than some of the other articles on your website. Perhaps this will start a lot of average joes using your site rather than the usual: obsessed, "geeky", hobbyists and boffins that mostly do at the moment. - Disagree.
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