Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/'THE 5th DOWN'

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The result of the debate was redirect. (I think this is also in the spirit of the "recreate" votes below.) Eugene van der Pijll 22:07, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 'THE 5th DOWN'

A poorly-named, poorly written, WALL OF TEXT article about a single game involving two college teams. Garrett^Talk 13:25, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Of interest only for trainspotters who scribble down statistics about every football game everywhere. Even the writing style is more appropriate for a sports column than for an encyclopedia. — JIP | Talk 13:38, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, rename, cleanup. A national championship game is notable, but not usable in this format. Indifferent Bollar 14:19, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: This was not a national championship game, it was an early regular season game. Christopher Parham (talk) 16:21, 2005 July 24 (UTC)
• Delete then Recreate We're obligated to delete it, I think, because of the improperly formatted title. However, a properly titled article about this event would not be inappropriate, since it is the only American football game in one of the two major leagues (the NFL and Division I) on record in which a 5th down was played. That it resulted in the win is true; that it ultimately determined the national championship is also technically true, as Colorado split the championship with Georgia Tech, which they would have been unable to do with one less win and one more loss on their record. The Literate Engineer 17:26, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Move to a better name, and cleanup. per Literate Engineer Dsmdgold 20:38, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, then Recreate to a better quality article. User: 24.171.36.233 10:55 PM, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Definitely worthy of an entry, but needs an appropriate name and stylistic revisions. Fernando Rizo T/C 00:18, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Ugh. Delete. Thorns Among Our Leaves 03:23, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge a summary of the unique situation to Down (football), leave this as redirect. Christopher Parham (talk) 03:26, 2005 July 25 (UTC)
• Comment I have created an article at Colorado v Missouri, 1990 football game, which covers the information here in a more encyclopedic style and has some additional info. The name is a bit inelegant and I would not object to it being moved. I vote that 'THE 5th DOWN' be redirected to the new article. Dsmdgold 04:18, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. I've just voted to keep that one. Even so I think you should have rewritten and moved this article instead of making a VfD fork. Nabla 18:22, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete (as above}. *Plus*, ive decided to nominate Colorado v Missouri, 1990 football game for Deletion aswell. As i dont think it belongs on Wikipedia. - The Time Killer
• Delete minor football game, trivial. JamesBurns 07:09, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn.  Grue  05:22, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Colorado v Missouri, 1990 football game - this is a much better write-up. Xaa 20:07, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or Redirect as above. Nabla 18:22, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect as above. JDoorjam 19:32, 1 August 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.