Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1912 Morris Harvey football team

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The result was keep‎. I see the consensus as Keep and the sources provided are adequate. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:26, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1912 Morris Harvey football team

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Subject lacks the in-depth sourcing to meet the GNG or WP:NSEASONS, and a WP:BEFORE check didn't come up with anything better. Playing Notre Dame doesn't grant a team its own season article. Let'srun (talk) 22:49, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: American football and West Virginia. Let'srun (talk) 22:49, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Playing Notre Dame doesn't make it non-notable, either. This article, admittedly a stub, seems to be part of a series of articles about independent colleges' football seasons in 1912. Some articles in the series are obviously better-documented than others, but that doesn't mean that the smaller or lesser-known schools' seasons are non-notable. There are three independent, reliable sources, and presumably others could be found in newspapers that aren't available online. And given the subject—college football seasons—I'm reasonably sure that readers do want this information to be part of the encyclopedia. I see fifty page views over the last ninety days preceding this nomination (sixty-two now), and while that's not a lot, it's more than many "kept" articles about obscure, but technically notable topics get. This nomination seems more like a "podunk colleges aren't notable" argument to me. P Aculeius (talk) 13:41, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Though not the strongest pass, there seems to be some decent coverage of this season on Newspapers.com, including articles (albeit brief) from unrelated states covering some of their games, which seems to show prominence. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:20, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep based on sources found Lightburst (talk) 18:06, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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