Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turkey Day Game

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 of the debate was Speedy delete -Greg Asche (talk) 02:36, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Turkey Day Game

This is non-notable. WAvegetarian 01:04, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

• I put it up for Speedy. Non-encyclopedic. --BorgHunter (talk) 01:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete but allow re-creation if anyone wants to write an an actual article on what is a pretty legitimate American cultural universal... rather than one particular instance of it. Including the detail that the traditional Thanksgiving Day local football game is frequently referred to as "Turkey Day" rather than "Thanksgiving." Wait, is this adequately covered in Thanksgiving? No, it is not. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:42, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as it stands - but I agree with what's noted above about the concept itself being a notable, American tradition. PJM 03:06, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Respectfully, Dpbsmith, Turkey Day could be a redirect to Thanksgiving, if there were content there, but Turkey Day Game is another one of those "games" invented by someone with more boredom than propriety and written up as a testament to himself. Geogre 03:30, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Not a big deal. This article should be deleted. I'm just saying the current content is worthless but the topic is potentially worthy. Turkey Day already redirects to Thanksgiving as it should, being a common nickname for Thanksgiving. What the Thanksgiving article does not presently capture is that Thanksgiving is a traditional day for traditional rival high school football teams to play games of particular local importance. I have no idea how this custom arose, and the article on Thanksgiving doesn't tell me. The second nuance is that "Thanksgiving" has religious or quasireligious or patriotic overtones to it, and "Turkey Day" and variants is not just an alternate name for Thanksgiving, but tends to get attached to less serious events and athletics in particular (witness my home town's "Turkey Trot" 10K road race). Shoot-from-the-hip "common knowledge" should go into any article without more research. I'm just saying, there's something worth documenting that isn't presently in the Thanksgiving article. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:26, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: I agree, and especially since the colleges do the same. ESPN has been calling it "rivalry week," and that's typically what the Thanksgiving games are, on the college or high school level. If there were a "cultural observances" or "leisure activities" section to Thanksgiving, we could also mention the Lions and Bears time immemorial NFL game. Geogre 18:03, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. This certainly is NOT just a game between the two named schools. We played a Turkey Day Game at my high school in Seattle in the early 60s. •DanMS 05:35, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete agreeing with above. Eusebeus 12:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - non-encyclopedic JoJan 19:20, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

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.