Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turkey Bowl

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 no consensus. W.marsh 04:43, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Turkey Bowl

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Violates WP:NOR and possibly even WP:V. Does not include proper references, one of them even citing "Personal Experience", thus the NOR violation. Little of the information is verifiable, and it isn't notable outside of Maryland or alumni of Calvert Hall College and Loyola Blakefield. Héous 18:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Dreaded Walrus 18:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Being a new user, I do indeed find it difficult to compile a perfect wiki page. I do find it unacceptable however that the page me considered for deletion due to a poor first posting. Since being brought up for deletion, the WP:NOR violations have been cleared far enough for the charge to be dropped, in my opinion. As another user on the discussion for the page said, The notion that this event isn't notable outside of Maryland or graduates is quite uncalled for. This event is followed by graduates and students of the schools, families, relatives, and other schools. While this event may not matter to you, it would be foolish to say that this event is not notable. the scope of people who do care about this event is quite large, and is backed up by documentation. Though it may not appear in textbooks or encyclopedias, it is well documented in newspapers, not just in Baltimore. I thank you for your concern over the content of Wikipedia, whoever I do wish for you to reconsider your decision to mark this page for deletion. --Andier 03:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. No sources are provided to back up any claim why this should be of more than local significance. The long string of results and most of the other content is unsourced. Sandstein 22:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This rivalry is one of the oldest in the country, the oldest Catholic-school rivalry in the country. The results and other claims are likely from gameday programs, of which I'm sure someone still has a copy from the game played just a week ago. Are there any scholarly books or in-depth web pages about the game? Of course not, it's high school. What did you expect, an Encyclopedia Britannica article? However, this does not mean it is not of significance. I made the first Turkey Bowl page because I thought it was one of the more noteworthy things not present on this site, and I'm sure a casual browsing of this site could find many more absurd articles than a century-old high school rivalry game, one of the biggest of its kind in the entire country. I will immediately add this link to the sources: [[1]]. Hopefully that will satisfy some of the more rabid sourcemongerers on Wikipedia. If anyone has a gameday program, I implore them to add its info to the page and cite it. Otherwise, I see no problem but citation with this article. Emphatic KEEP. Nursethisviper 15:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Although I expected the opposite before I read the article, I'm going to say Keep. Not a vastly significant event for any but afficionados, but I could imagine this coming up as a very difficult question on some multi-million dollar quiz show. I'm not saying we should carry the results and history of every local rivalry, but this one does seem to be persistent and mildly notable. WMMartin 18:19, 28 November 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.