Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of longest active NCAA Division I football series


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The result was   redirect to List of NCAA college football rivalry games. Would have been closed as merge, but Kgwo1972 has kindly carried that out already so all that's left to do is redirect. Jenks24 (talk) 16:18, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

List of longest active NCAA Division I football series

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Does not meet WP:GNG. This is WP:LISTCRUFT. Wikipedia is not a stats book. WP:NOTSTATSBOOK Tchaliburton (talk) 16:08, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
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 * Merge. I believe the nominator is wrong, and the subject IS notable per the general notability guidelines as required by WP:NRIVALRY and WP:GNG.  That having been said, how many different articles do we need on essentially the same subject?  Please merge the unique data in this abbreviated article to either Most played rivalries in NCAA Division I FBS and/or List of NCAA college football rivalry games, with the first article subject being the more specifically related to the nominated article subject.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:31, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * As the author of the article I'd say Keep or Merge. I can easily merge it into List of NCAA college football rivalry games.  I do believe the subject matter is notable, as college football rivalries are of enduring and wide public interest.  I'd also daresay this article is even more encyclopedic than the list of rivalry games, because a rivalry is rather difficult to define (albeit number of games and length of continuous play – i.e., the subject of this entry – are two possible metrics.)  Perhaps merging this article with the list of college football rivalries will kill 2 birds with 1 stone. --Kgwo1972 (talk) 19:39, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Kgwo, my major objection is that we don't need three different articles to present essentially the same information three different ways. The essential information presented by your version is the longest rivalries, played at least annually, without interruption.  This data could easily be incorporated into a separate sortable column in one or both of the other two existing list articles.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, I can do that. --Kgwo1972 (talk) 21:12, 10 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge far as I'm concerned, the merging of the articles in question are basic editing questions and can be handled by regular merge procedures.--Paul McDonald (talk) 23:26, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * UPDATE: I've merged this material into List of NCAA college football rivalry games. Hope that was okay to do with this discussion still open. --Kgwo1972 (talk) 15:52, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Working to improve an article during and AfD is expressly permitted, and under the circumstances entirely appropriate. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:20, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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