Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Oregon vs. Oregon State football game


 * 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   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 00:33, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

2008 Oregon vs. Oregon State football game

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Individual regular season college football games are not inherently notable per WP:SPORTSEVENT, and such individual CFB games must generally satisfy the general notability guidelines to be suitable for inclusion, and that also means that coverage must exceed WP:ROUTINE post-game coverage of typical individual games. Pursuant to established precedents and the consensus of WP:WikiProject College football, individual regular season games should have some historical significance for a stand-alone article. Articles regarding individual regular season games are disfavored and discouraged; content regarding such individual regular season games generally should be incorporated into the parent articles about the season of the individual teams (see 2008 Oregon Ducks football team and 2008 Oregon State Beavers football team) or rivalry article about the series (see Civil War (college football game)). For all of these reasons, this article about a regular season CFB game should be Deleted. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:57, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 23:17, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 23:17, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 23:17, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 23:19, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This doesn't seem to be a particularly notable game.  Can be sufficiently covered with relevant rivalry and season articles. Jweiss11 (talk) 01:58, 29 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. This game can be adequately covered in the rivalry article and in the 2008 team articles. Cbl62 (talk) 16:26, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Here's a list of the applicable notability guidelines for interested editors:
 * 1. WP:GNG: "significant coverage in reliable sources creates an assumption, not a guarantee, that a subject should be included.  A more in-depth discussion might conclude that the topic actually should not have a stand-alone article".
 * 2. WP:NSPORTS/WP:SPORTSEVENT: "Regular season games in professional and college leagues are not inherently notable."  Further, it provides that "a game that is widely considered by independent reliable sources to be notable, outside routine coverage of each game, especially if the game received front page coverage outside of the local areas involved (e.g. Pacers–Pistons brawl, 2009 Republic of Ireland vs France football matches, or the Blood in the Water match)" may be suitable for a stand-alone article.
 * 3. WP:ROUTINE: "Routine events such as sports matches, film premieres, press conferences etc. may be better covered as part of another article, if at all."
 * 4. WP:NOTNEWS: "Wikipedia considers the enduring notability of persons and events.  While news coverage can be useful source material for encyclopedic topics, most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion.  For example, routine news reporting on things like announcements, sports, or celebrities is not a sufficient basis for inclusion in the encyclopedia."
 * 5. WP:Notability (events)/WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE: "Although notability is not temporary, meaning that coverage does not need to be ongoing for notability to be established, a burst or spike of news reports does not automatically make an incident notable.  Events that are only covered in sources published during or immediately after an event, without further analysis or discussion, are likely not suitable for an encyclopedia article."  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per Dirtlawyer – Muboshgu (talk) 19:59, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom -  Cwobeel   (talk)  22:37, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing more than routine coverage. — X96lee15 (talk) 19:58, 4 November 2014 (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.