Talk:West London Sharks

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Notability should not have been disputed in this case. The tag was added by an American, what an American knows about British rugby league I'd really like to know. The club were founder members of a nationwide competition, they are associates of a professional side. [1], [2], [3]. The last link was from 10 Downing Street, if the British government thinks that the sharks are notable then what is the problem?GordyB 22:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(For the record, this is what I saw.) While you are correct that I do not know very much about rugby, the lack of the word professional, the use of the word club, and the lack of "recognized by the British government" (as you assert here) signal to me that this was not a notable sports team. Perhaps club means something different in British English than American English, but you do not have to be rude. It was an honest mistake. « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 11 22:59 (UTC)

Perhaps, I over-reacted but there is enough information on the page to know that it is notable. If you don't know what the conference is then all you need to do is click on the link and view that page. Notability is down to googleability, if you had put "West London Sharks" into google then you would get plenty of hits, you don't need to be a professional side to be notable. In any case, it should not have been put into the speedy delete because it does not fit into any of the categories.GordyB 09:34, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As for the difference between club and team is that a club might have several teams. West London Sharks to my knowledge put out three open-age sides (=teams) as well as any number of youth teams but they are still just one club.GordyB 09:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]