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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) LlamaAl (talk) 00:21, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Saitama City Cup

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I could find no significant coverage for this article. All of the (report) sources within the article itself appear to be dead links. Nominating article for deletion per WP:NN. Stubbleboy 03:42, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom. Bensci54 (talk) 06:50, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability. Giant Snowman 09:14, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - There don't seem to be any criteria for sports event notability, but the event involves professional teams and had decent attendance prior to the 3.11 earthquake. It has a fair amount of coverage in the Japanese press. I don't know much about Japanese soccer though, so am willing to defer to someone who knows more. If the problem is the lack of sources for the results, I can replace the dead links with live ones. Cckerberos (talk) 09:12, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Covered by TBS [1] and Asahi Shinbun [2], which are notable major media outlets in Japan, also by the Saitama City itself [3]. Event has featured teams such as Bayern Munich and Manchested United. Notability is present through coverage. Jun Kayama 01:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - has received coverage in reliable sources, and has had participation from teams such as my favorite football team The Red Devils. How can a cup with Man U be not notable? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:27, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This article which covers every season of this cup, barely passes the general notability guideline per the coverage presented by Jun Kayama (not per the argument that if some English team participates in a tournament, it is notable). Mentoz86 (talk) 19:17, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 01:29, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LlamaAl (talk) 00:12, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think NLH5 was joking. Anyway, Keep per sources cited by JK, although I think Saitama City itself covering the event doesn't necessarily add anything to the notability -- I'm pretty sure most Japanese municipalities' websites advertise bake-sales and the like. :P elvenscout742 (talk) 03:42, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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