Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1924 Delaware State Hornets football team


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was merge‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929. Now that the destination article has been created, this can be closed. Daniel (talk) 21:26, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

1924 Delaware State Hornets football team

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Notability not established with substantive independent sources, only played a single game. Fails WP:NSEASONS Reywas92Talk 20:27, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Reywas92Talk 20:27, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  21:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Delaware State Hornets football unless SIGCOV is found. Alvaldi (talk) 16:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I wonder how are we supposed to deal with articles like this - not just for DelState but for early college seasons as a whole, many of which were like this. Historically, we have regarded and usually kept every season of a Division I program (I can't recall one ever having been deleted). Would some type of merger be best? I don't particularly like the idea of a plain redirect as then all the details of the season is then lost; I still think we should have these details somewhere. Also worth noting that DelState is a historically black program; the white papers didn't tend to cover black teams and people all that well and the black papers of the time are almost exclusively offline or don't exist anymore. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:56, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Suggestion. The program was just getting started in the 1920s and played a total of only 10 games during the decade. I suggest merging the individual season articles into a single article covering Delaware State football "in the 1920s" or "early years" or "1924–1929". Such a solution has been followed for other programs, e.g., Articles for deletion/1924 Michigan Mines football team (merging multiple articles into Michigan Tech Huskies football, 1920–1942) and is consistent with WP:NSEASONS ("In cases in which the individual season notability is insufficient for an article, multiple seasons may be grouped together in a single article."). Cbl62 (talk) 19:50, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * In addition to the Michigan Tech example, a similar precedent is Articles for deletion/1879 Swarthmore Garnet Tide football team where early seasons for Swarthmore were merged into a single article titled "Swarthmore football, 1878–1887". Cbl62 (talk) 19:58, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'd be open to a redirect and merge of the info here into a new article covering this program in the 1920s per Cbl62, but waiting to see if anyone has any other ideas. Let&#39;srun (talk) 20:01, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Relisting. I feel like I've stated this a hundred times in relisting comments but a Merge is not possible unless there is an existing target article. If you want a Merge to another article, get started creating it. Otherwise this looks like a Redirect or Deletion. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 19:47, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929 per Cbl62. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:01, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929 per WP:NSEASONS and my "Suggestion" above. Cbl62 (talk) 17:04, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929 per WP:NSEASONS. Subject is not notable enough for a standalone article per the GNG. User:Let'srun 16:19, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929 oer above.  // Timothy :: talk  16:39, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


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