Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Louisville–West Virginia football rivalry

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:42, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Louisville–West Virginia football rivalry

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Fails WP:GNG. This is one of the dubious "rivalry" articles created by the notorious User:CalebHughes and/or his myriad sockpuppets. It has been tagged for notability for more than two years with no significant improvements made. My searches reveal a lot of mirrors of the Wikipedia article but do not reveal significant coverage in reliable, independent sources of the type required by GNG. Further, the series lacks other indicia of a rivalry: no trophy; no game name; no lengthy history (first game in 1984; last game in 2011); infrequency of play (13 total games); and lack of competitiveness (WV dominated the series, 10–3). Cbl62 (talk) 14:06, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Eagles 24/7 (C) 14:57, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. Eagles 24/7 (C) 14:57, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Eagles 24/7 (C) 14:57, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unconvinced that this is a rivalry notable enough for inclusion in this encyclopedia. Not ready to go either way on this one, but based on the article as written it doesn't look promising.--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:02, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. If we included rivalry articles for every pair of teams in the same conference, we'd have a lot of them, 132 for the Pac-12, for instance. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Fails WP:GNG. Both of these teams have real rivalries elsewhere, and this ain't it. Ejgreen77 (talk) 05:45, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per all above. Though I should point out to Clarityfiend that if every pair of teams in the same conference had a rivalry article, we'd have 66 from the Pac-12, not 132, since we still wouldn't have duplicate articles for Team X-Team Y rivalry and Team Y-Team X rivalry. Still a bad idea. Smartyllama (talk) 12:49, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. Well, at least I was half right. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:57, 2 September 2020 (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.