Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matriculation (sports activity)

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 delete and redirect to Hank Stram#Kansas City Chiefs. I've boldly instated a post-deletion redirect to the fellow who said it. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:24, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Matriculation (sports activity)

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No significant coverage in reliable sources. The fact this phrase may be used doesn't mean we need an encyclopedia article on the topic, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Pontificalibus (talk) 12:07, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:08, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:08, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Unexplained inside joke fails GNG. Matriculate this stub into the back of a MacNeilus. L3X1 (distænt write) 17:09, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(To wit, GNG)--Jerzy•t 01:13, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Null (Pro forma recusal): I created the stub to pass the buck in light of my total lack of interest in team sports.
(A perhaps obsolete expression: "my mother must have been scared by ...", say, a lacrosse stick or a Penzoil race car; i was told that's a "birth defects due to emotional trauma" meme, which i recall from at least one cartoon when TV and i were young).
--Jerzy•t 15:03, 17 & ~~1:13, 18~~ November 2017 (UTC)
   But wait: Keep, after all; get serious about seeking reliable documentation of the football usage; and REPURPOSE the nominated page after renaming (if only to preserve the edit history pending adequate research), by renaming to Matriculation (misnomers):
   I thot i had no dog in this discussion, but Aha: indeed, here is major-league documentation for the term's as yet unmentioned but now third mode of usage: i.e., college status, the contributor's sense, & "matriculating while in college" (which is documented along with a batch of other misnomers, said to have been intentionally committed for deception and/or a few belly laughs).
   It's plausible that there may be some unconscious or unconscious folk etymology involved: if the football story is verifiable, it raises the question of possible logic that may underlie the odd usage: an adolescent's analogy between the ball rolling lackadaisically down the out-of-bounds line and a juvenile visual analog). Matriculation may well find annual discussion by coaching staff, due to the various conferences' eligibility rules, and evoking it as an intentional double entendre may be a documentable inside joke.
--Jerzy•t 01:13, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
recuse myself I'm a biased Chiefs fan. It is a real saying, along the lines of 65 Toss Power Trap.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:47, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete an overheard and unexplained usage suggests that it's not notable, and there aren't references to suggest otherwise. Not all malapropisms are notable. Even if it were notable, it would likely fall afoul of WP:DICTDEF. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:01, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete completely non notable, not in any reliable sources. Even the article didn't claim any importance or wider usage in general — Ammarpad (talk) 04:55, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Definitely not worth having it's own article. The only thing I can think of is that it might possibly be worth a redirect to either Hank Stram or Super Bowl IV. But, it's entirely non-notable outside of that one event. Ejgreen77 (talk) 15:09, 23 November 2017 (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.