Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Missouri–South Carolina football rivalry


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The result was   delete. Yunshui 雲 水 14:19, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Missouri–South Carolina football rivalry

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Non-notable college football rivalry that fails WP:NRIVALRY and WP:GNG. 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. By that GNG standard, it is almost impossible to find significant, in-depth coverage of Missouri-South Carolina as a "rivalry" in multiple, independent, reliable sources per WP:RS. Has anyone ever written an in-depth feature article about the history and significance of the Missouri-South Carolina series as a rivalry? Has anyone has ever written a book about the Missouri-South Carolina series as a rivalry? Kansas-Missouri? Clemson-South Carolina? Alabama-Tennessee? Florida-Georgia? Auburn-Georgia? Yes, to all of those. Missouri-South Carolina? Nope. And that's not surprising at all, given that this game has only been played four times in the last 35 years, and has only been played in consecutive years once (2012 and 2013). This series has a trophy, but none of the other hallmarks of a traditional college rivalry, and none of the independent sources covering the game refer to it as a "rivalry." CFB rivalries are about tradition, and this game series has none. This series could become a rivalry in the future, but it is not what was intended by WP:NRIVALRY in the present, and it is not supported by the precedents of the previous AfDs and talk page discussions of WP:CFB. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete: per nom. There's seemingly an article about every single matchup in the SEC, including the recent ones.  p  b  p  21:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. The Southeastern Conference page could be tweaked to show a bit more info about these series matchups (not "rivalries"), but in any case not every one of them warrants an article.  JohnInDC (talk) 21:19, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete: per nom. Patriarca12 (talk) 21:56, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per above - No evidence of any notability. – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  22:33, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Carolina-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Cbl62 (talk) 03:16, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per just about all of the above. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 15:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete for all the above reasons. -AllisonFoley (talk) 02:36, 19 August 2014 (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.