Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1905 Bennett Medical football team

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The result was delete‎. BusterD (talk) 03:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1905 Bennett Medical football team

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Subject lacks the necessary WP:SIGCOV to meet the WP:GNG. Of the current sources, they are either a passing mention (#1), databases (#2 and #5), and routine game previews/recaps (#3, #4, #6, and #7). Let'srun (talk) 16:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: American football and Illinois. Let'srun (talk) 16:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:28, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep To be honest this probably belongs in a list of Bennett Medical football team seasons instead of being a stand-alone page as it's barely a "season" but not only is this the only Bennett Medical football season currently on the web site I do think there's just enough sourcing there. SportingFlyer T·C 17:57, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What sources do you think meet the WP:GNG for this season specifically? If you or someone else wants to draftify this for a potential combined season article, be my guest (although I am somewhat skeptical). Let'srun (talk) 22:12, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The game recaps meet GNG to me since this is a season article and it's been shown their games generated coverage. It's also a contextual argument, it probably wouldn't be enough if the same articles were around in 2023, but that is good 1905-era coverage. SportingFlyer T·C 11:59, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This has some similarity to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1904 Toledo Athletic Association football team. Both were created as part of an ambitious campaign by User:Murphanian777 to create articles on every opponent of Notre Dame. While I appreciate Murphanian's desire to be thorough, notability is not inherited by virtue of having played a game against Notre Dame (particularly in early years when Notre Dame scheduled games against many small-school patsies). Accordingly, we need to see SIGCOV of the Bennett team in order to keep this. The best sources cited in the article are this and this which are very brief game summaries. Mostly we have game scores (e.g., this) or database entries (e.g., this). I end up leaning "delete" when I also consider that (a) Bennett Medical School was not a particularly notable institution or football program (no parent articles on either), (b) there was nothing particularly remarkable about the 1905 team which compiled a 1–1–2 record, and (c) the article is a sub-stub with one short sentence of narrative text. All that said, I have no objection to draftification if Murphanian or someone else steps forward indicating a desire to take time to work to improve the article in draft space. Cbl62 (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If not kept, request userfy - may eventually get to creating something to contain this season article. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:56, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:52, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:02, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.