Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seven Overtimes

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: essentially a subjective 'WP:NOT indiscriminate collection of information' issue, so no consensus for deletion. Merging/moving can be pursued in the usual way. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 11:09, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seven Overtimes

Being tied for the longest game in history does not make this game automatically worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. There seems to be no precedent for this, as there are no articles that I can find about the longest games in MLB, NFL, NHL, College basketball etc. The article seems to be mostly trivia which, if relevant, should be merged into other lists or articles. Also, if kept, the current name of the article is inappropriate. Khatru2 08:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

• Exceptionally weak keep. I don't follow College Football half as closely as the professional game, but the longest game in the history of a sport or a league (assuming it can be verified, something which a cursory Google appears to say can be done rapidly) strikes me as relatively notable. Even though it's easier for a college game to extend into multi-overtime than a professional one. That said, the title will need work and it may be a better idea to write up a summary of the other 7-OT game and stick it into this page as well. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 09:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Maybe worthy of being included into the main article for the sport, but not really notable by itself. Pursey 10:07, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Agree with Pursey, at most it warrants being a trivia item on the main page (Therin83 12:20, 15 October 2006 (UTC))
• weak delete baseball and Hockey have them, for pros at least, but this article is pretty bad in its current form. It's barely even coherent. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 13:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, or as a remote second choice, merge as a trivia item into College football. --Metropolitan90 18:11, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into some other football article and replace with redirect. Contains useful encyclopedic content but not a subject on its own. Dgies 18:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with redirect. A record-setting/tying game is something worth noting, but not in its own article. Someone more familiar with the college football circuit could suggest a site to merge to. Consequentially 23:40, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Rename to Arkansas v. Kentucky, 2003 and cleanup. The game itself is definitely notable, and it should be included in Category:Notable college football games. The article simply has a terrible title and needs a rewrite/cleanup. This game gets at least a mention every time a college game goes to two overtimes or more. KrakatoaKatie 13:25, 24 October 2006 (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.