Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Texas vs. Oklahoma football game


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The result was delete. clear consensus  DGG ( talk ) 01:18, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

2008 Texas vs. Oklahoma football game

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There was nothing extraordinary about this game. It was just one of many that both teams played that season, albeit it was a rivalry game, which is far from significant enough to warrant its own article. The contents can easily fit in the 2008 season articles of each team. Lizard (talk) 01:55, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. Notability (sports) does not seem to cover games, so that takes us to Notability (events) (I also don't see anything at Articles for deletion/Common outcomes). Now, there is no denying that such games, as trivial as they may seem for most people, do generate a lot of coverage, because sport is a major hobby for the masses. We are therefore faced with an event that does, routinely, generate a lot of coverage - at the same time WP:EVENT states that "Routine kinds of news events (including most crimes, accidents, deaths, celebrity or political news, "shock" news, stories lacking lasting value such as "water cooler stories," and viral phenomena) – whether or not tragic or widely reported at the time – are usually not notable unless something further gives them additional enduring significance." Whether sport games fall under such routine issue is a BIG topic. This one does have a claim that " ESPN analyst Ivan Maisel called the game "one of the best college football games of this or any season."" That may be enough to make it non-routine. In either case, I think we need a section on notability of individual games, linked from EVENT and SPORT guidelines. --Hanyangprofessor2 (talk) 04:42, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oklahoma-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 15:42, 3 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:58, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete (or merge). Per the nominator's rationale and the long-standing practice of discouraging single-game articles except in truly extraordinary/historic cases. Cbl62 (talk) 16:26, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:55, 10 April 2017 (UTC)


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