Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bluefield High School Beavers football


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The result was   merge to Bluefield High School. Merge and then please redirect SarahStierch (talk) 01:25, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Bluefield High School Beavers football

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Extensively detailed account of the history of a high school football team. Merge is possible, but as it stands the article is unsourced. Kinu t/c 09:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak keep  Existence of wp:notability suitable sources is likely.  Well written encyclopedic article.  "Weak" because has near-zero sources, and Wikipedia probably really doesn't need / benefit from  separate articles on high school football teams.  North8000 (talk) 12:03, 30 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - I also have some verifiability concerns as this seems to be mostly original research. I don't think that high school football teams have much of a precedence for notability. Go   Phightins  !  22:15, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 15:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 15:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete with redirect to Bluefield High School; should sourcing arrive for any content during this Afd, or content thought to be reasonably unquestionable, merge said content into the article on the high school. KillerChihuahua ?!? 15:07, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable high school football team.  Even if the subject were marginally notable, separate articles for high school football teams would be a horrible precedent.  To the extent any of the content of this article is relevant, it should be merged to the main article for the parent high school.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:08, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm not ready to answer yet. Normally I go with delete because high school programs are rarely notable.  And it is lacking significantly in sources.  But the images seem to portray some sense of historic notability.  Before I make a call, I'd like to learn if the program competed against other colleges back in the day when high schools and colleges played each other, and would the organization have achieved notability back then.  (probably not... but I'm willing to wait a bit and see).--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:07, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Considering the school was founded in 1959, it seems like it would be after that era you mention. I find no sources to indicate anything to the contrary; one could also assume that such information would be included in the wall of WP:OR text that is this article if true anyway. -- Kinu  t/c 16:43, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hoax? there's an image of the football team from 1908 in the article.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The entire first section and related images (pre-1959) refer to the team from Beaver High School (the school in whose honor this school takes its nickname), not this particular team. -- Kinu  t/c 20:54, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
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