Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/San Francisco Soccer Football League
Maxschweitzer has misbehaved badly, with his bizarre postings on OlYeller21's talk page, and really ought to apologize or be sanctioned in some way. That being said, this is the oldest continually operating soccer league in the United States, with a history going back 111 years. That is a powerful claim of notability, and a search of Google Books and Google Scholar shows that this league meets the |general notability guideline, which trumps all topic-specific guidelines. This league was the subject of two scholarly papers published in the Taylor & Francis journal, Soccer & Society, in 2009 called http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970903239974 The promise of soccer in America: the open play of ethnic subcultures, and http://books.google.com/books?id=6agFbIU-x1sC&pg=PA49&dq=%22San+Francisco+Soccer+Football+League%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pcNXUZyPGuPMiQLBmYCQBQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22San%20Francisco%20Soccer%20Football%20League%22&f=false Soccer in America: The Marking and Open Play of Ethnicity in the San Francisco Soccer Football League
— User:Cullen328, 05:11, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)