Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chester F.C. (2011th nomination)

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Team has never appeared in the FA Cup, the normal threshold for notability for English football clubs. Most references are to non-independent sources or blog; BBC entry is focussed on stadium rather than team. Kevin McE (talk) 10:30, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

:I understand that but the first two principles of page naming are that it should be:

  • Recognizable – Using names and terms commonly used in reliable sources, and so likely to be recognized, for the topic of the article.
  • Easy to find – Using names and terms that readers are most likely to look for in order to find the article (and to which editors will most naturally link from other articles).

Under these circumstances, it would make more sense that it remains where it is. Furthermore, Chester City is in the past now, as is its former name. It should look more to the future, hence the new Chester and the very least that they should do is mention on the page that Chester F.C. was the predecessor's former name. Those who were fans of Chester City before its dissolution and probably now fans of Chester would probably agree with my sentiment. There are many more lower-ranked obscure teams with its own page and as they are an 8th tier team, they deserve more than a (2010) suffix at the end of their name. Finally, as I'm sure you know, the new Chester F.C. cannot compete in the F.A Cup in the season after their foundation, so what do you expect us to do, wait until next year then remove the suffix? Exodus94 (talk) 10:41, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

:::Only one citation of a reliable independent source, so assertions of GNG are unsupported: we don't allow posting of players' articles on the assumption that they will play in the sort of match that triggers notability, so why would we for clubs? The now defunct Chester City was more commonly known, right up to its demise, as Chester, in the same way that Peterborough United or Macclesfield Town are normally discussed using simply the name of the town, without the qualifier. Kevin McE (talk) 12:06, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

::::If it's any help, Chester will imminently be receiving plenty of coverage on the League website, with club details, all results etc - just like all the other clubs in that league. It would be pretty silly to have 2010–11 Northern Premier League with one red link, and the Chester article would be endlessly recreated. I think the notability rule on the FA Cup was designed to weed out tiny clubs at Step 13 or whatever, not clubs with crowds in the hundreds or thousands who play at Step 8. But the article name should certainly have "2010" to differentiate between the original Chester and the new club. Bretonbanquet (talk) 12:22, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

:*Comment Why are there two identical articles for this club? Chester F.C. and Chester F.C. (2010) - one needs to be a redirect to the other, depending on what the club is actually called. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:39, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

::Comment The article needs to be called Chester F.C. (2010) because there was a Chester F.C. prior to that club being renamed Chester City F.C. We can't have the article for the new club having the same name as the original club - not possible at all. There needs to be a dab suffix for the new club. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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