Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1947 Washington State Cougars football team

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 00:09, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1947 Washington State Cougars football team[edit]

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Single page American Football article, of which run from 1899 to 2016, and each one has a single page. Requesting delete and amalgamation, of first 50, which only in each is coach, year and Standings changed. It could easily merged into decades. Side effect is many dozens of these articles needing reviewed, with substantially little difference between them. Little knowledge can easily be amalgamated into single table per decade, or per 20 year block. Took page at random for WP:AFD. scope_creep (talk) 01:41, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:24, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:24, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Season articles for major teams generate sufficient coverage to pass WP:GNG. IMO there ought to be a presumption of notability for seasons involving a Power 5 Conference team. Washington State is such a major team with membership in a Power 5 Conference. Cbl62 (talk) 03:01, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep again, per the logic postulated by Cbl62. Lepricavark (talk) 03:15, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep College football, including the history and seasons of its major teams (such as Washington State), is an incredibly well-covered sport. Deletion is not cleanup, and we definitely shouldn't be deleting pages just to reduce a backlog (especially when autopatrolled status is an option). TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 03:20, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I know American Football is notable on WP. I'm not looking to delete the information, nor reformat it into a form which makes it harder to read or create, nor to alter any table or other salient information in any manner. I merely think that if two pages have only 12 characters of difference, in the first two articles I looked at across at 1919 Colorado Silver and Gold football team, they should be combined, perhaps per a decade block, or a period that is more natural to American Football. 13:27, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
keep passes WP:GNG notability standards. Please remember: Do not confuse stub status with non-notability.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:37, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and expand Passes all required notability checks.--Rockchalk717 07:40, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Cbl62, TheCatalyst31, and Paulmcdonald's reasoning and arguments as an NCAA D-I FBS team historical season, just like we did when we had this exact same discussion just eight weeks ago. Ejgreen77 (talk) 01:16, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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