Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1911–12 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team


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The result was   no consensus. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 21:08, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

1911–12 William &

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This article does not appear to be sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia; specifically, it does not meet: WP:NSEASONS. Not only was 1911-1912 not a championship season, but it wasn’t even a winning season for the team. This article appears to be part of a series of season articles, but per WP:MULTIAFD I am suggesting one (the first one I came across) for deletion now to see how it goes. Shanata (talk) 05:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Shanata (talk) 05:37, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep, but perhaps with article move. W&M has always been an NCAA Division I (or historical equivalent) school, the top amateur basketball played in the United States. I could compromise with creating decade-long articles, such as "William & Mary Tribe men's basketball, 1910–19", which are the accepted/standardized substitutions in the college basketball, college football, and college baseball WikiProjects to avoid potential single-season stand-alone articles that might not be notable themselves. Jrcla2 (talk) 00:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Tavix |  Talk  01:16, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:30, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Merge into groupings of seasons, as suggested above. W&M has always been a Division I program and therefore notable. Per WP:NSEASONS: "In cases where the individual season notability is insufficient for an article, multiple seasons may be grouped together in a single article. This grouping might be based on head coaches, conference affiliation, or any other reasonable standard that results in sufficient coverage for the period to warrant an article." It would seem wisest to me to either: 1) have articles for each decade of the 1900s, with individual articles beginning at 2000-01, at which point more media coverage per season would be available, or 2) have articles for each conference affiliation W&M has had: Independent, 1905-1936; Southern Conference, 1936-1977; ECAC South, 1977-1982; CAA, 1982-2000. (The team is still in the CAA, but as mentioned earlier, I think 2000-01 is a good cutoff point for when individual season articles could begin, as more media coverage is available for recent seasons.) Skudrafan1 (talk) 14:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I personally like the decade approach rather than by head coaches or conference affiliation. For W&M basketball specifically I like it because it would be consistent with the way the W&M football seasons have been created. Jrcla2 (talk) 17:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 06:24, 15 February 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:29, 22 February 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 03:46, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.