Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1926 Delaware State Hornets football team

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The result was merge‎ to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929. Thank you for creating the Merge target article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:30, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1926 Delaware State Hornets football team

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Notability not established with substantive independent sources, only played a single game. Fails WP:NSEASONS Reywas92^Talk 20:28, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 20:28, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Delaware State Hornets football unless SIGCOV is found. Alvaldi (talk) 16:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder how are we supposed to deal with articles like this - not just for DelState but for early college seasons as a whole, many of which were like this. Historically, we have regarded and usually kept every season of a Division I program (I can't recall one ever having been deleted). Would some type of merger be best? I don't particularly like the idea of a plain redirect as then all the details of the season is then lost; I still think we should have these details somewhere. Also worth noting that DelState is a historically black program; the white papers didn't tend to cover black teams and people all that well and the black papers of the time are almost exclusively offline or don't exist anymore. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:57, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This doesn't meet the GNG or NSEASONS. I'd be open to a redirect and merge of the info here into a new article covering this program in the 1920s per cbl62's suggestion in the 1924 deletion discussion, but waiting to see if anyone has any other ideas before I !vote. Understand what BF11 is saying but if there isn't GNG level coverage, this article can't stay as it is. This probably could've been a bundled nomination, but too late now. Let'srun (talk) 20:02, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The NCAA didn't even have divisions until 1973. The fact that a school plays at this type of competitive level now has no bearing on the 1920s. The fact that you can't recall any of these being deleted just means these obscure topics have avoided scrutiny until now and it's a pain in the rear to deal with hundreds of such articles. I could support a consolidated list of early seasons. Reywas92^Talk 23:15, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929 per Cbl62 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1924 Delaware State Hornets football team. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:02, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929 per WP:NSEASONS ("In cases in which the individual season notability is insufficient for an article, multiple seasons may be grouped together in a single article."). The Delaware State football program was just getting started in the 1920s and played a total of only 10 games during the decade. Merger is also consistent with our past precedents at 1924 Michigan Mines AfD (merging multiple articles into Michigan Tech Huskies football, 1920–1942) and 1879 Swarthmore AfD (merging early seasons into "Swarthmore football, 1878–1887"). Cbl62 (talk) 17:13, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Delaware State Hornets football, 1924–1929 per WP:NSEASONS. Subject is not notable enough for a standalone article per the GNG. User:Let'srun 16:18, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Delaware State Hornets football per above. // Timothy :: talk 16:39, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting. I feel like I've stated this a hundred times in relisting comments but a Merge is not possible unless there is an existing target article. Luckily, another Merge target article has been suggested so it's likely that this article will either be Redirected or Merged to it.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:48, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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