Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kilbride Swifts F.C.

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The result was redirect‎ to List of association football clubs in Northern Ireland. ✗plicit 23:31, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kilbride Swifts F.C.

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Non-notable amateur sports team. Fails WP:GNG and WP:CLUB. Article on same topic was previously deleted (following 2009 AfD which covered a number of clubs playing in regional junior/intermediate/amateur leagues). Article has been tagged for notability/refs since 2012 and for attention since 2022. It has been barely a 30-word sub-stub in all that time. In my own attempt to expand the article (and as part of WP:BEFORE) I cannot find sufficient sources to confirm if the club still exists. All I can find are scarce passing mentions in hyper-local sources in directory-style entries, decade-old ROTM match reports (or two decades for that matter), or this article from nearly 25 years ago about a head butt incident. I cannot find ANY sources which deal with the subject as a primary topic. I can't even find poor or passing mentions to even establish the basic facts (where the club is/was based, when it was formed, if it still exists, if/when it closed, etc). Not even primary ones (no website, no Twitter, no Facebook, nothing). If there aren't sufficient sources to write more than 50 words about this topic, how can we possibly state that GNG is met? Guliolopez (talk) 16:55, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions. Guliolopez (talk) 17:01, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Guliolopez (talk) 17:01, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:45, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of association football clubs in Northern Ireland – As WP:ATD. Svartner (talk) 21:40, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. While I had considered a possible AtD target like that, the club is not mentioned in the proposed target list. And, as above, I cannot find sufficient sources to determine whether or where to include it in that list(?) Where would we include the subject club on that list? Guliolopez (talk) 13:21, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is not mentioned because it was last active in 2012, but the redirection to the club list is appropriate. Svartner (talk) 21:03, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. And thanks. RE: "redirection to the club list is appropriate". My reading of the applicable convention is that the subject of the redirected title should, at the very least, be mentioned at the target. I personally don't know where it would/could be listed. RE: "it was last active in 2012". What's that date based upon? Per one of the few sources available, it was seemingly active in 2012. As above, I can find no sources to establish if that was the "last" date of activity. If there was a reliable/verifiable ref confirming a date of last activity (or demise) then, at the very least, we could include in the "defunct clubs" section of the proposed target... Guliolopez (talk) 15:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 13:15, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as above. Giant Snowman 13:21, 24 January 2025 (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.