Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia – West Virginia rivalry


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The result was    Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 00:19, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Virginia – West Virginia rivalry

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Unsourced article about a made-up rivalry. UVA and West Virginia are not and never have been rivals. The two teams have only played 23 times in their history, never more than eight years in a row, and only once since 1985. B (talk) 22:19, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - completely unsourced, appears to be WP:Original research if not invented. --MelanieN (talk) 00:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC)MelanieN
 * Delete as not notable. "Rarely-played rivalry game" is an oxymoron.   Mandsford (talk) 03:27, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, doesn't appear to be notable. Its name is confusing, as well: if I hadn't read it, I'd think it to be something related to the creation of West Virginia in 1863.  However, I believe that you can have a rarely-played rivalry game: if I remember rightly, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox had a major rivalry in the twentieth century, although they went for several decades without playing against each other.  Nyttend (talk) 04:41, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know enough about the VA-WV rivalry to comment on it. I was asked to comment on Cubs-Sox. They met in the 1906 World Series and started playing interleague games when the rest of MLB did so in 1997. In the 90 intervening years, the rivalry was more about North Side and South Side, as they seldom played each other, even in spring training as their camps were on opposite coasts. However, they did face each other in an exhibition "City Series" that ran off-and-on from 1903 to 1942; and from the 50s through the 70s or so they played an annual charity exhibition game. When the Sox won the 2005 World Series, the victory parade went only through the south side and stopped at the Chicago River in the downtown area. The WGN-TV announcer Dan Roan, a Cubs fan, who was covering the parade, took a mild shot at the south siders in regard to speculation about whether they would cheer the Cubs if the Cubs ever win another Series. There are also perennial complaints about which team gets "more favorable" coverage in the local newspapers. Mike Royko, who died in early 1997 and thus didn't get to see any of the meaningful games, was a loyal Cubs fan and was always poking fun at the Sox and their fans. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:51, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind, two cross-town teams in a league of 30 teams are going to be far more closely related than two teams 5 hours apart in a league of 120 teams. Heck, until the interstate to Morgantown (I forget - I-68?) was built 20 years or so ago, it was further than that.  There are ten teams that are closer geographically to UVA than WVU and plenty of them that they have played more often.  You can certainly have rivalries where the series is on hold (eg, VT-WVU, Pitt-PSU, BC-Syracuse, etc) and you can have hostile fanbases that don't like each other, but the teams rarely/never actually meet on the field (VT-Tennessee), but WVU-UVA is neither of those.  A game between UVA and WVU would interest neither fanbase any more than any other game against any other equity conference opponent would interest them.  WVU would care just as much about playing UVA as they would about playing UNC, Mississippi, Indiana, WFU, or any other middle-of-the-road BCS team.  The same goes for UVA.  They just aren't rivals. --B (talk) 18:31, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —TerriersFan (talk) 16:49, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind, per User:B. 72.151.55.27 (talk) 22:58, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? B wants the article to be deleted.  Nyttend (talk) 00:29, 4 February 2010 (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.