Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of West Virginia Mountaineers significant football games


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The result was   delete. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

List of West Virginia Mountaineers significant football games

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The selection criteria for this list is subjective and not encyclopedic. See Articles for deletion/List of historically significant Michigan Wolverines football games for an analogous article that was deleted. Jweiss11 (talk) 04:44, 10 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Criteria in selection of games for inclusion in this list is subjective and probably violates the Wikipedia prohibition against original research per WP:OR.  Furthermore, regular season college football games are not inherently notable, and must satisfy the specific notability guidelines of WP:SPORTSEVENT, WP:EVENT or WP:GNG.  In all events, a subjective "highlights" game list such as this is contrary to the established policy of WikiProject College football, whereby regular season CFB games are collected into season articles or season decade articles.  While CFB bowl games and other CFB championships games are presumed to be notable, individual regular season games are not.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 05:10, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * If I might make a further suggestion: the closing administrator should userfy this article for any editor who requests it, so that any salvageable content may be transferred to the West Virginia Mountaineers football season articles. Most the WVU football season articles are bare stubs, consisting of only a lead, infobox and records table.  We should do anything we can to promote their improvement.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:04, 10 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Dirtlawyer1 is correct: totally subjective and WP:OR.--GrapedApe (talk) 10:49, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment not ready to pull a trigger on this one. While certainly the content needs to be better scrutinized, I'm not so sure about the idea of the list itself.--Paul McDonald (talk) 11:51, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per Dirtlawyer1. - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 13:51, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't really see it as original research - the material has external sources. However, the page is primarily a compilation of information from this list and this other list. As of now, the decisions as to which games were included appear to be subjective.
 * However, if the list had categories based on some objective standard (e.g. highest attendance, games that clinched a conference championship, most viewers on television, etc.) then it would be more appropriate. But even with that, I'm not convinced a list of "significant WVU football games" is any more appropriate as a Wikipedia article than a similar list for Nevada, or North Texas, or Appalachian State (which is to say it isn't appropriate). Therefore I recommend the article be deleted.
 * I think what would make more sense would be to include a "top five" list of games based on objective categories (such as the ones I mentioned above) on the West Virginia Mountaineers football page. Perhaps if desired, the two external links that are the primary sources could also be included (although the links to the home pages for those sites are already on that WVU football page). I also agree with Dirtlawyer1's suggestion about transferring info to the individual season pages for WVU football. Mdak06 (talk) 14:27, 10 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge to West Virginia Mountaineers football per precedent cited in nomination. --BDD (talk) 15:52, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
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 * Merge Content should be WP:PRESERVEd into West Virginia Mountaineers football or appropriate season specific article (from list at List of West Virginia Mountaineers football seasons)—Bagumba (talk) 01:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Frankly, after looking over the list, I can say that most of these games are "significant" only to WVU, not on any kind of national or collegiate-football scale. The "significant" games are such things as: •400th game, •Final game at Old Mountaineer Field, •Bill McKenzie kicks a 38-yard field goal as time expires. These sorts of things are not notable to anyone but diehard WVU sports fans. The history of the team is already covered in excruciating detail in West Virginia Mountaineers football. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 05:09, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
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