Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Penn–Yale football rivalry

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The result was delete. Tone 13:47, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Penn–Yale football rivalry

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Another in a series of entirely-unsourced Ivy League football "rivalry" articles dating to March 2016. WP:NRIVALRY says "Sports rivalries are not inherently notable" and defers to WP:GNG. GNG states "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list." Currently there are zero supporting citations, so fails GNG. Searches do not return significant coverage in independent sources to meet GNG standards ("significant coverage") in my view.

Non-GNG callouts:

site:newspapers.com is good for sourcing significant historical coverage
site:nytimes.com is another, including the very minor[1]
Modify as helpful, but neither returned much for me.
site:pennathletics.com yale rivalry football seems to avoid usage in articles where you'd expect to find it
site:yalebulldogs.com penn rivalry (primary source issues aside) returns [2] UW Dawgs (talk) 22:58, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:14, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:15, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

~~Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:15, 4 October 2018 (UTC)~~[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:16, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:16, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete it's only a rivalry in the sense some sportswriters used the term to describe one team playing another, which is a correct definition of the word, but not the definition we use here to determine whether two schools are rivals. Not an actual rivalry, fails WP:GNG. SportingFlyer talk 07:30, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Rivalries are not notable unless reliable sources have given them significant coverage. Rzvas (talk) 03:20, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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