Talk:Islington Corinthians F.C.

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Notability

A notable club? Seems not to me. Article was created by a user whose username matches the name of the author of the book listed in the article - possible spam? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:25, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely fails the (mostly) agreed-upon club rule for participating in the FA Cup or top ten levels in the football pyramid. Probably fails the more general notability rule of significant coverage in multiple independent sources - there is one self-published source. I did find this BBC London link but it's written by the same guy to promote his book. There is little substantive coverage elsewhere - not even on fchd - just a lot of off-hand mentions. I've flagged the article with these issues and may AfD if they're not resolved in a reasonable time. Qwghlm (talk) 21:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect there may have been a lot more coverage, world-wide, in the press during their worldwide tour - it must have been quite a novelty in a lot of places at that time. Has anyone asked the author of the book for sources, or has anyone seen the book and if so is there any list of references in there? I wouldn't expect to find much on the internet about a club from this long ago. They're listed on the tours of the US Soccer Hall of Fame (see http://clubetabanka.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html), google is pointing me to a reference in a Winnpeg paper of 1938 (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/LandingPage.aspx?type=glp&search=%22islington%20corinthians%22%20%22the%20times%22&img=\\na0009\6786965\40871150_clean.html) but I can't get any deeper than that at the moment. If the club themselves aren't notable, their world tour by itself may well be. - fchd (talk) 21:38, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If the tour got multiple independent coverage at the time then the club effectively got the same, and I would have no objection to the club's inclusion. I'm about to drop a note on the author's page. Qwghlm (talk) 22:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would say if the world tour would be notable, then the club should be, and the world tour's coverage should be in the article about the club. It would be difficult to have an article about a tour of a club and then not acknowledge the club itself. matt91486 (talk) 05:18, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above comments were copied from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_25#Islington_Corinthians. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 18:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]