Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Greatest Game Ever Played (disambiguation)

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 keep. Cirt (talk) 18:41, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Greatest Game Ever Played (disambiguation)[edit]

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No reason for disambiguation page as only one article, The Greatest Game Ever Played, exist. Labattblueboy (talk) 05:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:26, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The nominator is correct that we don't make disambiguation pages if there's only one article of a particular name, and no similar sounding redirects. However, the lone article called "The Greatest Game Ever Played" is about an obscure Disney film, the very last thing that any sports fan would think of upon hearing that phrase. I think that it would make sense to have an article about the phrase and the various events that it applies to, similar to Trial of the century. Maybe then there would be a need for a dab page. Mandsford (talk) 22:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. We do in fact make disambiguation pages to also list alternate names. The reason why "only one article, The Greatest Game Ever Played, exists" is because the other articles listed on The Greatest Game Ever Played (disambiguation) are following option #1 of WP:NCDAB: "When there is another term or more complete name that is equally clear and unambiguous, that should be used". In the NFL Championship Game, 1958 article, for example, it clearly has a cited sentence in its lead section that says, "The game has since become widely known as The Greatest Game Ever Played" (emphasis added). Zzyzx11 (talk) 05:29, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but I don't think using a dead-linked nfl.com article is a reliable source in claiming that an NFL game, or any game for that matter, is the Greatest Game Ever Played and obviously as the dab. page creator your likely to support its continued existence. Bit of a conflict of interest I would say. --Labattblueboy (talk) 21:39, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's understood that all that's required is that people call it that.Steve Dufour (talk) 05:05, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep You're right. I was looking further at this, and the dab page doesn't at all make it clear that The Greatest Game Ever Played (American football) redirects to the 1958 championship game. There's room to fix some of the redirects. "Greatest game ever played" is nothing more than a redirect to the film, made after someone left out the word "The". Mandsford (talk) 13:31, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is a dab page about a generic phrase. If someone is interested in developing a list called List of Greatest Games Ever Played with WP:RS that would be great and far more appropriate. However, this is not currently a dab. page as in intended by WP:NCDAB, it's a very poor list that is unsupported.--Labattblueboy (talk) 21:39, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 02:17, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Kind of an ugly page, but it seems to serve a purpose. I'm not sure if much would be made better by changing the form or name. I am not moved to do so. Steve Dufour (talk) 04:52, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep many games are called "the greatest game every played" ; how would we find the articles for those games if not for the dab page? It's not as if people will actually know how we name game articles. 05:55, 23 December 2009 (UTC) 70.29.211.163 (talk) 05:55, 23 December 2009 (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.