Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff 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. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:23, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game

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Individual regular season college football kickoff 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 individual games in the series. Preseason kickoff games are not bowl games or playoff games; they are regular season games and merit no special consideration. Furthermore, 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 should be incorporated into a parent article about the game series (see, e.g., Florida–Georgia football rivalry, Cowboys Classic), or the season articles about the individual teams (see, e.g., 2013 Alabama Crimson Tide football team). For all of these reasons, this single-season game article should be Deleted, and a handful of highlights from this article should be incorporated into a one-paragraph summary of the game in the parent article, Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:46, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 02:16, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 02:16, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete There is nothing notable about this game other than WP:ROUTINE coverage. — X96lee15 (talk) 02:53, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Jweiss11 (talk) 04:13, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete but only if all the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game articles are deleted. If only this one is deleted then it would be strange to have one for every year but not 2011. Bsuorangecrush (talk) 15:32, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * We have nominated all but the last two (2013, 2014) editions of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff for AfD, and if someone else doesn't beat me to it, I'll nominate them, too, when I have some time tonight. All pending college football AfDs are listed on the WP:CFB talk page.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:43, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep looks like it got some good coverage here, that's far beyond routine scores and listings.--Paul McDonald (talk) 04:11, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:CFB has had these debates many times before. Exceeding WP:ROUTINE for a Division I college football game means more than typical post-game coverage. It means lasting coverage -- we have deleted single-game articles in the past with more and better coverage than this one.  By the standard you suggest, virtually every Division I college football, NFL, NBA and MLB regular season game would pass GNG.  That's not how ROUTINE has been interpreted, and that's not what was intended.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 06:29, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * "Many times before" ?? "More than typical post-game coverage"??  What is typical post-game coverage?  I'm curious about that because [{WP:ROUTINE]] defines it as "sports scores" -- if your definition is different, what is that?  Where is it published?  By what measure do we use?--Paul McDonald (talk) 10:21, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Paul, you are misreading ROUTINE. A lot more is included in the definition of "routine" than sports scores; that's an example, not a limitation.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:07, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment - Here's a reading 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, "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)."
 * 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." (Credit User:Bagumba for point No. 5; I learned something new today.)  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:07, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as WP:ROUTINE; this particular individual game is not noteworthy in itself for a separate article. Jrcla2 (talk) 13:28, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just a routine game, one of hundreds played each year in college football.  Nothing that makes this one stand out as being historical. Resolute 14:28, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Move to combine 17 games are presently under WP:AFD and responses are being cut and pasted. These topics should be combined before further discussion and certainly before closing the issue.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:33, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * As the nominator, I object to the proposal, however well intended, to combine this AfD and any others pending as procedurally out of order. The AfD nominator has that choice in the first instance, when he files the AfD.  Only rarely does it make sense to propose a bundled multi-article AfD.  Invariably, the fairest way is to to nominate articles individually, and to judge each and every individual article on its individual merits, and that is the normal AfD procedure.  Moreover, many of these articles have nothing in common except for the fact that their subjects are all regular season college football games.  As I have said before, multi-article AfDs often lead to no-consensus outcomes because AfD discussion participants desire different outcomes for different articles included, and the AfD discussion becomes hopelessly muddled when it includes multiple articles.  Furthermore, the stated position of the "keep" !votes is that these are articles are individually notable and individually suitable for inclusion; demanding a mass AfD for 16 different game articles is logically incoherent with that position.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:41, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom with a particular emphasis on WP:ROUTINE and incorporate content to Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game and/or the specific 2011 Georgia/Boise State season articles where applicable. Patriarca12 (talk) 00:03, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nominator. WP:ROUTINE etc. --DoctorBob3 (talk) 01:00, 10 October 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.