Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1992 National League Championship Series Game 7

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was merge to 1992 National League Championship Series. —SW— ^confess 18:32, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1992 National League Championship Series Game 7[edit]

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Similar to the discussion going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game Six of the 2011 World Series, this is an article about a single game in a notable series, where there is no indication that this single game meets WP:SPORTSEVENT, as it is not held as any more notable than any other LCS Game 7. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to 1992 National League Championship Series any sourced content that is appropriate. Leave this article as a redirect to preserve attribution per WP:MERGE. Rlendog (talk) 00:49, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This user seems to be following me around and looking for articles of mine to delete. I have to say I don't care. It was things like this that caused me to leave Wikipedia in the first place and this little adventure is only reminding me why. Vidor (talk) 00:51, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not "following you around". ~~You~~ An editor pointed out this article to me. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:57, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to 1992 National League Championship Series. My initial reaction was against the deletion, but upon looking at the Series article I think that a lot of the material in the Game 7 article would better fit into the Series article. The Game 7 article should be cherry-picked for relevant material and reliable sources before deleting and redirecting, however.--RDavi404 (talk) 01:09, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - It appears to me that the nominator's interpretation of WP:SPORTSEVENT is incorrect. Except for the last sentence, that section of WP:ATH is defining events that are considered "inherently notable"—that is, events for which the presumption is that an article should exist. The last sentence says that regular season games "are not inherently notable"—that is, the presumption is that there should not be an article. This game is neither the final series nor a regular season game. Since this game doesn't appear to fit the criteria for either being "inherently notable," or "not inherently notable," it appears that the decision needs to be based on other criteria, such as WP:GNG. The game received substantial coverage from reliable sources, nationally and internationally, so I believe that it meets Wikipedia's notability criteria. BRMo (talk) 04:12, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- All of these games get coverage; SPORTSEVENT says it needs to be above and beyond routine coverage, which this is not. LCS and WS games get substantial coverage routinely. Otherwise, you're saying that every postseason game should get its own article. – Muboshgu (talk) 05:05, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - I did not say that every postseason game should get its own article. I said that WP:SPORTSEVENT does not preclude a postseason game from having its own article if it receives sufficient coverage. (The guideline mentions, for example, "front page coverage outside of the local areas involved.") Checking Google News archives, for many papers it's hard to tell what page the story ran on, but here's a story that ran on the front page in Fort Lauderdale ([1]) BRMo (talk) 05:26, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Merge to 1992 National League Championship Series. Unnecessary fork of the NLCS article. Reso lute 13:47, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Resolute...William 17:50, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into the main article.There should be no precedent set to create individual articles for individual games.--JOJ ^Hutton 16:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Not enough significant coverage. JDDJS (talk) 22:03, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I do agree that this is not the absolute most significant of games out there, however this kind of thing falls under WP:BOLD for me. WP:SPORTSEVENT appears to be marginally satisfied, so the real issue is that people don't want articles for each game. Why is there an article for each episode of tv shows then? That seems very routine, yet it's never an issue. Here we have a decently significant postseason game 7 and people are saying that we cannot have this. That's counterproductive; if we are able to expand on games like this, then I say go for it. Almost all of the sources check out and someone took the time to compile the information into this article. It's not like this is some pointless game or even close to it. The coverage is there, so I don't find it in the best interest of Wikipedia to be removing stuff like this. RoadView (talk) 13:03, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the main article as an unnecessary content fork. Canuck_{My page}^{89 (talk)}, 10:25, 26 March 2012 (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.