Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Royal Holloway Bears

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 02:40, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Holloway Bears

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Not notable and unreferenced. A quick google search of both the current and old names of this team returns nothing other than sites related directly to the university to which the team belongs and sites related directly to rival teams. This is hardly surprising as a university sports teams in the UK for mainstream British sports such as Soccer and Cricket have a minuscule following in their own institution never mind outside of it. What's worse for this team is that American Football enjoys little beyond niche following in any quarter in the UK Pit-yacker (talk) 19:30, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. -- NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 19:39, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. -- NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 19:39, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Very few UK university sports teams meet our notability criteria and this one does not appear to be an exception. Pfainuk talk 19:47, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - With a few exceptions, university teams are non-notable. This isn't one of those teams. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 21:45, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
delete lots of text, but no references. I don't exactly think this is "original research" but without sources cited... it's gotta go.--Paul McDonald (talk) 04:51, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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