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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 07:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

1943 VPI Gobblers football team (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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No reason to have an article for a team that did not exist. Discussion took place on the talk page but got nowhere. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 17:24, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related page because VPI did not have a team in 1944 either, and therefore the same reason applies:

1944 VPI Gobblers football team (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 18:23, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 18:23, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 18:23, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete/redirect to List of Virginia Tech Hokies football seasons. What a laughable idea to create this, doesn't seem like there's anything else to be said other than not existing. Reywas92^Talk 19:26, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• comment we have lots of articles about "things that don't exist" such as 1940 Summer Olympics, 1904 World Series, 1994 World Series, 2018 First Responder Bowl, and others. I'm not sure that is the case here with this season, but I'm not ready to dismiss it right away.--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:38, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete upon further investigation, there are no articles that link to these two articles and the navigation Template:Virginia Tech Hokies football navbox skips those two seasons (and has since at least 2011). The navigation tools in the infobox for surrounding season articles skip these two. I think that it's safe to say that those enthusiastic editors for this topic have chosen to skip these two articles and they are remnants that can be deleted. So I say that we go with ignore all rules and delete these two because it will make Wikipedia better.--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:49, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• I think this Article violated WP:NOTADVERTISING} and it's Not notable in itself first, and second this Article is too short and need to expand correctly. so I think it should be delete.Forest90 (talk) 20:20, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • While I agree with you on the end result, how is this "advertising" ?? No one is trying to sell tickets to the Virginia Tech 1943 football season...--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:40, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • I agree with Paulmcdonald; this nomination had nothing to do with WP:NOTADVERTISING, just that the article was unneeded. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 15:05, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete both. ... for obvious reasons already stated. Good catch, nominator. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 21:07, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete both per nom. I agree with Paulmcdonald that cancelled sporting events can occasionally be notable, but probably not here. A Newspapers.com search does not turn up much in the way of in depth coverage. There was an initial burst of coverage about Virginia Tech's decision to suspend play for the duration of the war (e.g. here and here) but not much after that. A very large number of teams suspended play at the height of the WWII years, and there is nothing sufficiently notable to warrant stand-alone articles about these particular non-existent football teams. Cbl62 (talk) 00:35, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I've argued for a while that teams shouldn't have articles, but merge is also a possibility Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1918 Montana Grizzlies football team.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 13:43, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete fails WP:GNG, WP:NSEASONS. SportingFlyer T·C 23:40, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as a blatant violation of WP:GNG. Should be a speedy deletion. James-the-Charizard (talk) 14:12, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.