Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles

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. RL0919 (talk) 18:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles[edit]

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Non notable sports program, the article might be keepable if the football program and its two seasons are merged into it. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:32, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:45, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:45, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Passes WP:GNG. A search on Newspapers.com pulls 143,000 articles discussing the program. The football team has its own article (Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football) and has won ~~two~~ three national championships in football. Cbl62 (talk) 20:43, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep NCAA and NAIA athletic programs are notable enough to warrant stand-alone articles covering the entirely of all sports teams for the school. The class of NCAA Division III athletic program articles is well-established, e.g. Tufts Jumbos, Bowdoin Polar Bears, Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks, Washington University Bears, Case Western Reserve Spartans. University of Wisconsin–La Crosse ought to contain a section of no more than a few paragraphs summarizing the high points of the Eagles athletics programs, much like the lead this article, if it was well-developed, would. As football is generally the flagship sport of American college athletics in terms of coverage and attention, Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football warrants its own stand-alone article. Sports like track and field or softball that garner less coverage can probably be covered in full in this article. Eagles football seasons of high significance also warrant stand-alone articles, e.g. national-championship-winning seasons for sure like 1992 Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football team and 1995 Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football team. 1985 was also a national-championship-winning season. In short, these articles need expansion, not deletion and merger. The sources are out there and I'm skeptical the nominator here did his WP:BEFORE due diligence. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:49, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Jweiss put it pretty well, sources are definitely there and the subject passes GNG. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:12, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is an athletic program at a large public state university that has won national championships and is the alma mater of a large number of pro athletes. Its sports programs have received both extensive coverage in the La Crosse papers and coverage of its more notable achievements in other places, and it easily passes GNG. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 00:25, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I absolutely have to agree with Jweiss11, who said it so much more eloquently than I can and agree with 100%. -- Dolotta (talk) 22:57, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There is consensus to merge Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football into Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles. scope_creep^Talk 00:30, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Scope creep: can you show me where that discussion is located? Thanks. BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:48, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On my talk page. It is not much, I know. I was planning to redirect the page when it was reviewed as NPP. The contents of the two articles are identical. scope_creep^Talk 00:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

scope_creep, what's on your talk page is not a consensus. And the two articles are not identical. Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football does not and should not contain content related to track and field or other sports aside from football. Jweiss11 (talk) 01:02, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The article on the Eagles could be expanded by moving/copying a chunk of University_of_Wisconsin–La_Crosse#Athletics. Pichpich (talk) 02:47, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep we have a long-standing habit of having articles for the intercollegiate athletic programs of four-year colleges at every level: NAIA, NCAA Div III, and larger. We have done this because such programs typically generate so much press that passing WP:GNG is almost a given. While I suppose it is possible that a 4-year college athletic program might not meet that standard, this program most certainly is not an exception as there are ample third party reliable sources for decades--perhaps even a century.--Paul McDonald (talk) 22:19, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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