Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Locations of College GameDay (football)

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The result was Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 04:32, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Locations of College GameDay (football)[edit]

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The good thing: Alabama is mentioned more often than Auburn on this page. The bad thing: this list is pure directory material. There is no conceivable reason to have this list--what do these locations matter? The show itself is highly notable, of course, but this list of locations, no: it's really fan cruft. Drmies (talk) 21:01, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Clearly WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:FANCRUFT — Jkudlick ^tc_s 01:04, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Allow me to add the LISTCRUFT points I feel this article fulfills: 1, 2, 3, 8, 12. — Jkudlick ^tc_s 05:08, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Per Jkudlick's comment above: WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:FANCRUFT. And I might add that the article lacks inline sources for a majority of the facts and statistics recited. Wikipedia is also not an advertising medium for ESPN. Dirtlawyer1 (talk)
Keep The page has been around and consistently edited since February 2009. There have been over 1,400 edits from over 500 distinct editors page info. The page has been viewed over 8,400 times in the past 30 days traffic stats. We've clearly moved beyond "cruft" here. The list is WP:DISCRIMINATE because it is specific to locations of GameDay. Including this list in the original article would most certainly be unwieldy and clumsy on that page, so keeping it here is a reasonable choice.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:42, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why is such a list necessary as a stand-alone article? Why couldn't it be kept as a set of collapsible wikitables in the main article? — Jkudlick ^tc_s 05:04, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

First off, nothing is necessary on Wikipedia. But I think that consensus of editors will be to keep the information in some way. Even using collapsed tables on the primary page will lead to clumsy editing and being difficult to maintain. Plus, not all browsers will support collapsible wikitables. Maintaining a separate list article is an alternative that will work easily and a significant number of editors seem to support through their actions.--Paul McDonald (talk) 11:33, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, Dirtlawyer1 and Jkudlick. Pure WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:FANCRUFT, and mostly unsourced. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 16:21, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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