Deletion of List of football clubs in Tuvalu

Comment: nbsp; Nominator has a burden that is not met to show that the claims that this is not notable are not caused by poor research.&nbsp; Is there a newspaper on Tuvalu?&nbsp; Does it really not talk about what a reliable source says is the most popular sport in the nation?&nbsp; http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/insidefifa/news/newsid=886994.html This site reliably states that there are nine teams in a Premier league in a country of 12,000 for whom gaining recognition in soccer comes 2nd after joining the United Nations.&nbsp;  states, "If it is likely that significant coverage in independent sources can be found for a topic, deletion due to lack of notability is inappropriate."&nbsp; There is no requirement that individual items on a list be notable, although it may be that as a content issue some of the teams on this list can be removed.&ndash;again, this needs research, not an AfD nomination.&nbsp; Nominator might also look at http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D0%25A7%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BC%25D0%25BF%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0%25D1%2582_%25D0%25A2%25D1%2583%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BB%25D1%2583_%25D0%25BF%25D0%25BE_%25D1%2584%25D1%2583%25D1%2582%25D0%25B1%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BB%25D1%2583&prev=_t this Russian to English translation.&nbsp; It is clear based on a Google search that there is interest worldwide in Tuvalu soccer and individual teams there.&nbsp; As per :Category:Lists of association football clubs, merging or redirecting to another article disorganizes/disrupts the encyclopedia without a purpose (Wikipedia is paperless) by creating holes in a logical structure.&nbsp
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: to Football in Tuvalu. Just because we have "List of football clubs in..." for other countries, it doesn't we have to have one for ''every'' country, especially when the number of teams is so small. I'd say  could apply here
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Summary style (WP:AVOIDSPLIT)

Comment: per concerns of .  Nothing says that a list must be made up of items that are bluelinks (or even links at all).  The fact that the components of the list might not individually be notable on their own does not indicate that the topic itself is not notable
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Systemic bias (WP:BIAS)