Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1905 Howard Bulldogs football team


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The result was   delete. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 08:27, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

1905 Howard Bulldogs football team

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Is there some reason that a standard college football schedule with no remarkable events wouldn't fall under WP:ROUTINE? This article, at least, fails WP:GNG. Dea db eef (talk)  17:36, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alabama-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:49, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:49, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. This is a non-notable season for a minor college football program.  The WP:CFB precedents are clear: in the absence of meaningful coverage (i.e. not routine, not trivial) in multiple, independent, reliable sources to satisfy the general notability standards per WP:GNG, single CFB seasons for minor programs do not get anything like an "automatic pass."  We do make exceptions for non-notable seasons when they are combined with other seasons by decade, coaching tenure or some other logical and coherent grouping, effectively creating a "list of" article.  If the article creator wants to have this article userfied so that he can work on expanding to a full decade of seasons (e.g. 1900-09), I would support that in keeping with established WP:CFB precedent.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:10, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Dirtlawyer1. Also spare us from the mediocre 1965, 2011 and 2012 seasons. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. In addition, this article claims that Samford (then known as Howard College) used Seibert Stadium as its home field in 1905, although that stadium was not built until half a century later. Where they actually did play, I don't know. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:19, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, none of the stadiums listed in this article are correct, because none of them existed in 1905. (And one of them is listed as being located in two different states.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:52, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
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