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Bletchley Town F.C.

Another editor deleted the article you created because you didn't provide any evidence that the details are accurate. Please reading WP:Citing sources.

If you follow the pattern set by Buckingham Athletic, you can recreated, but you must first find the supporting evidence. This is what you wrote: I've marked where you need to give the evidence. Material in italics is material that I think you need to add for clarity. Material that is crossed out thus is where I think it is confusing or getting bogged down in detail and so should be left out.

The library has the Bletchley Gazette on microfilm, you just need the issue date and page number.

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History

Bletchley Town first formed in 1914 as Bletchley Sports, playing their first game at a ground in Duncombe Street. [The club] was reformed after the 1914/18 war, when the name was changed to Bletchley Sports Club. [The club had] another change of name at the start of the 1930/31 season, when the familiar name to Bletchley Town Sports, and became nicknamed "The Gladiators" has progressed a long way since then.

As juniors they joined the local North Bucks League and after two years obtained entry to the South Midlands League, where in the third season they won the league championship. It was also about this time they moved to Manor Fields after playing all their earlier games at Bletchley Park.

Having gained senior status in the early fifties, they were admitted to the Spartan League clinching the league title at their first attempt. They then followed a period where, as well as deciding to change their name several times, they also changed leagues repeatedly.

In a quick succession of names like Bletchley & Wipac F.C , Bletchley Town F.C again were used and then Following the amalgamation of the two most senior clubs in the district, Bletchley Town United was adopted whilst membership of the South Midlands, Hellenic, and again the Spartan League came and went.

At the start of the sixties, having been admitted to the United Counties League they turned Semi-Professional. During this time they reached the fourth qualifying round of the F.A Cup in successive years and it finally culminated in the winning of the United Counties League Cup. In fact in their eight seasons as members of the United Counties League, they appeared in no more fewer than five league cup finals and won it twice.

After a short spell in the now defunct Metropolitan League they were finally elected to the Southern League in 1971/72 and in the nine seasons they had only gained a modicum amount of success mid-table.

At the commencement of the 1974/75 season they changed their name yet again to Milton Keynes City F.C. In 1979/80 they ,s>gained the rewards that were long overdue by having had their best ever season in the Southern League and also making made their first appearance in the County Cup Final winning 2-0. Last known season in 84/85.

The modern club

Then the newly formed Bletchley Town F.C re-appeared in 2005, (started by the current Bletchley Town Chairman John Snead and nicknamed "The Moles") and entered the North Bucks League. They stayed in this league until the end of 2007/08 when they applied for entry into the Spartan South Midland League season 2008/09, where they entered two teams - one into Division Two and the other into the Reserve Division two. They then started back playing at Manor Fields for the start of 2010/11 season and are improving season by season. And now have reverted back to the original Nickname "The Gladiators". [This goes in the table]]

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Good luck with this - if you need any help, drop me a note ( please start a section called Bletchley Town.

A useful source for post 1950 info

See Bletchley Town on the Football club database. It also has other Bletchley clubs in the index. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:21, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Anyone can change what you (or I) write in the article space. New articles are likely to be deleted if they don't have evidence that they are true or notable. For the record, I didn't delete your article but I felt that the person who did so (quite correctly) was a bit harsh in not telling you why. As someone who has written many articles about the Milton Keynes area, I felt I should intervene and help out. If you don't want my help, that's fine and you are perfectly entitled to ignore what I say. But if you put the article back up as it was, it will be deleted again. At the very minimum, you need to say that BFC is a team that plays in the Spartan South Midlands League. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:06, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Bletchley Town F.C. article created

I have created a standard 'starter' article for Bletchley Town. As is everybody else, you are entitled to change it or add to it provided only that you provide reliable evidence to what you write. NB because your log-on name suggests that you may associated with the club, please read WP:Conflict of interest. Especially try to resist over-praising your team as it is not Barcelona. If you would like to add the team colours as per Stony Stratford Town etc, either just copy with changes or drop me a message. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:21, 25 April 2012 (UTC)