Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/College athletics

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 Keep --Cyde↔Weys 13:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] College athletics

Contested PROD. Article doesn't give much information, and I don't see what could be added - anything that refers to athletics in the three major governing bodies (NCAA, NAIA and CIS) could go there, while anything else is either apparently not notable enough ("only followed by competitors and their close friends and families") or would be put into an article for that particular governing body. fuzzy510 23:24, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - an article overarching this well reported subject is certaily verifyable. Article may be poorly written and a stub but we should be WP:BOLD. I have a crusty old 1960's encyclopedia that mentions ( albiet briefly ) college athletics in this way - Peripitus (Talk) 00:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This is an important topic and this article needs to be improved. Breaking things up obscures the broader picture. That's why Britannica is divided into a "Micropaedia" and a "Macropaedia". This article needs to explain the context, eg how did college athletics get started? What are the landmark developments since then? How do the three major governing bodies relate to one another? Why is it so much more prominent in USA than elsewhere? I will add an expand notice to the article and list these questions on its talk page. Landolitan 01:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, The history and evolution of college athletics would be a valid subject, though the article clearly needs work to become that. - Motor (talk) 07:45, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep — Important topic with no suitable substitute page, including the suggested, but USA-specific NCAA page. — RJH (talk) 20:59, 7 June 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.