Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alabama Crimson Tide football under Nick Saban


 * 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   Maflormed nomination that resulted in a keep consensus. Consensus is to keep, so not bothering to list it properly. Anyone should feel free to run a properly formatted AfD if they disagree. Monty 845  20:08, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Redundant?
I posted on the talk page for the page. In general I find the information presented here highly redundant. The main team article contains a concise but detailed Saban Era section, in addition the individual season articles are also very detailed. I have edited and seen almost every major college program's wiki articles and I don't believe I've seen an article that details an individual coaches era, the standard seems to be the main team article and ideally individual season articles for each season (sometimes those are composite articles).

As such I think this page is just a maintenance headache and all the useful information is already found in the standard sort of articles. --Zaqwert (talk) 03:44, 25 July 2013 (UTC)


 * As I also responded on the talk page, there are several other coaching tenure articles like this (see History of college football by team). Secondly, I plan on this being an eventual lead article for a good topic on Alabama Crimson Tide football under Nick Saban that includes the 2007 through the present seasons (4 of which are already GA class). Also, as I continue to work on expanding individual Alabama season articles, I had planned on creating articles similar to this to serve as an overview of that particular tenure linked back to the main Alabama Crimson Tide football article. Are there some redundancies, yes. However, as more information is researched and cited, I do feel this type of article is necessary to provide an overview of a particular era instead of adding this level of detail to the main Alabama page or even a coaches' page. Patriarca12 (talk) 12:18, 25 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. The topic is highly notable.  The Saban era at Alabama is one of the most notable in the history of the sport.  Nor is the any sort of protocol against articles like this.  To the contrary, there are quite a few.  See, e.g., Minnesota Golden Gophers football under Bernie Bierman, History of Michigan Wolverines football in the Yost era, USC Trojans football under John McKay, Penn State Nittany Lions football under Joe Paterno (as an Independent), Notre Dame Fighting Irish football under Bob Davie, Utah Utes football under Ike Armstrong (in the RMAC).  I believe that articles on important coaching tenures of the most significant coaches are quite useful. Cbl62 (talk) 02:53, 26 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Far from redundant. The seasons themselves are notable, but so is the Nick Saban era as well, arguably one of the most dominant eras in college football. Also per cbl62.  Agent Vodello OK, Let's Party, Darling! 15:31, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, this discussion was never posted to AFD the correct way, apparently. I don't know how to fix that, so someone really should deal with this.  Agent Vodello OK, Let's Party, Darling! 15:31, 16 September 2013 (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.