Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Final Detroit Tigers game at Tiger Stadium

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The result was merge to Tiger Stadium (Detroit). There's very little content about this game at 1999 Detroit Tigers season, so it's pretty clear that this content should go into the stadium article. The community should decide how much of this content should be merged. Krakatoa Katie 22:34, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Final Detroit Tigers game at Tiger Stadium[edit]

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Similar to Final game at Yankee Stadium, these "final games" aren't notable enough for their own articles. Any important bits can be listed at Tiger Stadium (Detroit), but a separate article is inappropriate. Muboshgu (talk) 02:16, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. —Muboshgu (talk) 02:17, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to 1999 Detroit Tigers season. All the relevant information can easily be incorporated into that article. Spanneraol (talk) 02:49, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Spanner's comments. Alternatively, could be merged to Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit). The game is not in and of itself notable. The stadium and the season the game took place in are. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 03:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Obviously this article is notable. If it weren't, it would have been deleted soon after its creation. As it is, this article has managed to stick around for almost 5 years. 173.26.237.244 (talk) 03:37, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Those are not valid arguments for inclusion, and certainly nothing that would make it "obvious" that the article is notable. There are, like, approximately ten bazillion articles on Wikipedia. It is hardly surprising that one could hang around for 5 years before someone noticed that it didn't cover a notable topic. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 03:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and reference better, its too big to merge into the article on the season. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:56, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The whole thing doesn't need to be saved. It can be parsed down to the nuts and bolts. --Muboshgu (talk) 05:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly.. for example.. the box score looks like it was cut and pasted from some other website...and should go away anyways. Spanneraol (talk) 03:40, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is lengthy, yes, but the majority of the content is of questionable encyclopedic value. I don't think we need quite so comprehensive a series of quotes, a full list of uniform numbers, the boxscore, etc. This stuff can be easily pared down. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 03:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per Spanneraol. -Dewelar (talk) 16:31, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per my comments on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Final_game_at_Yankee_Stadium. Strikerforce (talk) 06:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge then redirect to target 1999 Detroit Tigers season and Tiger Stadium (Detroit). Of course, the topic is notable. However, after five years, I was expecting to see a well written article providing the emotional details that one would expect when you say goodbye forever to a long time friend. The existing article did not let the collective of the reliable source material tell the story. What I saw would be better suited in the target article. The info could then be spun out once the right editors come along to give the topic proper treatment. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 08:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: it is unclear from these comments why the last game played at a stadium is less notable then other rare events. For example, in baseball there is a Category:MLB perfect games, which has articles on several of the 20 perfect games in the history of U.S. professional baseball. Also in baseball is Category:Lists of no-hitters by franchise. In American college football, over three dozen 2010–11 NCAA football bowl games, including the 2011 TicketCity Bowl, merit articles. Games such as The Epic in Miami, the Music City Miracle, the Tuck rule game, and a 1988 game called the Fog Bowl are considered notable. 72.244.204.30 (talk) 15:39, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well for one thing, it's not all that rare.. if you were to write an article about the last game played at every stadium in the history of baseball then you would have scores of articles... this one may be more current but that doesnt mean it should get more notice than a mention on the season page. Spanneraol (talk) 15:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stadiums are used for decades, making the last game at one seem pretty rare. Per WP:RECENTISM it isn't surprising that this article popped up before the one for Sportsman's Park. I'm not saying the topic can't be covered in a season or stadium article, but I question the requirement to do so when individual articles are created for the most trivial of college football post-season bowl games. 72.244.204.30 (talk) 16:07, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge: to Detroit Tigers or 1999 Detroit Tigers season. Tofutwitch11 ^(TALK) 20:46, 10 December 2010 (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.