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.
Delete. This, along with several other creations by Tranjj (talk·contribs), is an apparent hoax. Nothing shows up for an FC by this name, the only 'Devonshire Rovers' club detectable is a softball/baseball club in Sth Africa. There is no mention of a "Devonshire Rovers" in the Football Club History Database. None of the leagues/competitions the article claims this club has participated in mention it (eg supposed winners of Football League Trophy, 87 & 89). The article's creator is perhaps overreaching himself by appearing to claim 4 FA cup wins and 3 runners-up appearances, and the evidently fictional Llagered Cup is probably the best clue to the beer-goggled origins of this entry. cjllw | TALK13:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am also nominating the following related pages created by the same user purporting to be players of this club:
update: it seems that since this AfD was nominated a couple of other club aficionados have come by to edit out the obvious hoax/prank claims to replace it with a much more modest account of this club's standing- ie an amateur club playing in the West Kirby (pop. 12321 [1]) Regional Division 1. However, despite this attempted recovery from the own goal of inflated/joke claims, given that this appears to be a rather minor minor league which does not itself rate an article, my delete vote above stands per notability guidelines (not to mention, the content is presumably all original research as there's still nothing remotely resembling an independent source). Same goes for the related players' articles.--cjllw | TALK02:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My delete vote stands too. West Kirby FC play in, and currently lead, Division 1 of the West Cheshire Football League [2] and it is inherently unlikely that West Kirby itself has a different "Regional League", let alone one with more than one Division. No independent evidence of it, anyway. Bencherlite02:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I can't find any evidence for the existence of this league, which, as noted above, is most likely to be a Sunday morning park league if it exists at all. I stand by my !vote to delete all related articlesChrisTheDude07:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please Do not delete: This team does exist though obviously the honours bit was incorrect as was the league etc though it has been edited now the person who created the page used a template from another football club's page rather than having to type out all the html code himself and now all the code has been fixed to the correct honours and league. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tranjj (talk • contribs) 11:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]
The closest I can find to a source is this local results page which shows that a team called Devonshire Park (this club's supposed former name) plays in the Wirral Sunday League Division Four, which is, shall we say, ever so slightly below the threshold of notability..... ChrisTheDude11:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom. I've speedied Mark_Thorne as well. All the other player links lead to people who blatantly aren't Sunday footballers (some of them are dead - ho ho) EliminatorJR22:40, 17 February 2007 (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.