Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arkansas–Missouri football rivalry


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 17:22, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Arkansas–Missouri football rivalry

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The two teams have met only five times in a 108 year span. Therefor, this is not notable enough to warrant its own article.  Daytona   500  18:35, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - I have not performed the WP:BEFORE research required to determine the notability of this game series as a rivalry, but per WP:NRIVALRY, no sports rivalry is inherently notable, and every sports "rivalry" must satisfy the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG. That means significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources explicitly covering the series as a rivalry, not merely as a recurring game series.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. The SEC has realigned things so that, starting in the fall of 2014, Missouri will replace South Carolina as Arkansas' "cross-division football opponent". This may or may not result in a significant rivalry forming at some point in the future. However, there is not presently a notable football rivalry.  Nor has there been historically.  As Nascarking notes, these two teams have only played each other five times.  The most recent game was in 2008, and there have been only two games in the past 50 years.  The present state of affairs does not warrant a stand-alone rivalry article. The headline on one of the sources cited in the article sums it up pretty well: "Only time will tell if Tigers' new rivalry takes."  Any issues concerning the 2014 game can be dealt with adequately at 2014 Arkansas Razorbacks football team and 2014 Missouri Tigers football team.  Last but not least, this article does not pass WP:GNG, as I am not finding significant coverage in mainstream media outlets covering the series as a rivalry as opposed to a potential future rivalry.  Cbl62 (talk) 22:23, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - Non-notable college football "rivalry." Cbl62's comment immediately above is four-square on point so I am not going to rehash his logic.  I am going to assert that in these CFB rivalry AfDs that a Rule of Common Sense should exist: any game series that is played infrequently is probably not a traditional CFB rivalry.  Bottom line: common sense says that any series that has been played five times in 108 years, or twice in the last 50 years, is probably not a rivalry in any meaningful sense of the word.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:19, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arkansas-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:31, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:31, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:32, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:32, 29 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Five times.  p  b  p  04:54, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
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