Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brisbane Lions–Port Adelaide AFL rivalry

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The result was delete. Ged UK 18:33, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brisbane Lions–Port Adelaide AFL rivalry[edit]

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Just another rivalry between 2 of the 16 teams in the league. They've met once in a Grand Final. Nothing else that significant. All of the refs refer to individual games, not really on any long standing rivalry. The-Pope (talk) 00:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. -- The-Pope (talk) 00:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- The-Pope (talk) 00:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete. Agree with the nominator. This was all I could find that discusses the rivalry much, claiming they were the best two performed teams of the 2000s. Jenks24 (talk) 08:36, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There are verifiable modern AFL rivalries between, say, West Coast and Essendon. No rivalry can be verified to exist between Brisbane and Port Adelaide. This article is an annotated list of AFL games between Brisbane and Port Adelaide. For a list to be kept,

every entry must meet notability criteria to have its own article in the English Wikipedia; or,

every entry in the list fails the notability criteria; or,

it is a short, complete list of every item that is verifiably a member of the group.

~~The list~~ If the article were a list, ~~contains~~ it would consist of notable games: the second Qualifying Final, 2001; the second Preliminary Final, 2002; and the Grand Final, 2004. It would only pass muster as a list (as "List of AFL finals between Brisbane and Port Adelaide") if its items were those three games only. --BrisroyFan58 (talk) 09:17, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But it isn't written up as a list... it's written as an article, so the topic as a whole must satisfy the WP:GNG, not a synthesis of the individual items.The-Pope (talk) 23:15, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree, the whole article must pass WP:GNG to be kept, and that's why I've !voted delete. Maybe I should have have explained myself better.--Shirt58 (talk) 09:38, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I understood you, I just don't think a list of 3 finals games should exist as an article or a list either!The-Pope (talk) 12:46, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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