Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of football clubs in Tuvalu
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
— User:Unscintillating, 12:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)