Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2001 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team

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The result was Keep. Cirt (talk) 04:30, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2001 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team[edit]

Unnotable details of the 2001 North Dakota Fighting Sioux team. I am requesting a deletion per WP:DIRECTORY which states that Wikipedia is not a place for directories or indiscriminate collections of information, which this clearly is. Tavix (talk) 19:19, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This is the only "single season" article for this football team.

Keep WP:DIRECTORY mentions nothing about sports team seasons. The specific items listed are the only things WP:NOT clauses cover, rather than examples. At any rate, while division 2 seasons would probably not usually be notable, this team won their first national championship in this particular season, which is a reasonable argument for notability. --Rividian (talk) 20:45, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reply This would cover the 3rd point on WP:DIRECTORY. Also, just because a division 2 team wins a championship doesn't magically make it notable. There are no other division 2 single season articles and I just don't think we should make an exception for this one. Tavix (talk) 22:02, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, the 3rd point doesn't mention sports seasons either. I'm not sure you're clear what a directory is... it just lists contact information and information about what a business/organization does, that doesn't describe this article at all. Believe me, if WP:NOT was supposed to cover sports seasons articles, it would specifically say so. There have been dozens of such AFDs claiming WP:NOT covers these articles and all the AFDs have been closed as keeps. --Rividian (talk) 22:41, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 23:21, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Dakota-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 23:21, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 23:21, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Although the article most certainly should be rewritten to have more narrative than it has now, the college's football program is notable, and the 2001 season in which it won the NCAA Division II championship is most certainly notable. The wikitable format used here does not tell the story very well, and has all the drama of an airline timetable. However, this could become a good article. Mandsford (talk) 01:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Though the article doesn't have too much in the way of prose right now, it can certainly be improved - there are a lot of season articles out there, most of which aren't just a schedule and a paragraph. As for the notability, the team did win their first championship that year, and WP:DIRECTORY says nothing about sports seasons. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 01:46, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Needs work but a championship winning season seems notable enough. Definitely not covered by WP:DIRECTORY. Basement12 (T.C) 21:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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