Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1997 Florida Gators softball team

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 redirect to Florida Gators softball. (non-admin closure) SST flyer 05:16, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1997 Florida Gators softball team[edit]

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This AfD additionally covers the following near-identical articles:

This is a group of articles covering individual seasons played by the the University of Florida's softball team from 1997 to 2007. These articles were created over the course of a few days in 2009 by User:Ocdmuch and have not seen any noteworthy edits in the ensuing seven years.

The guideline for articles about individual sports seasons is WP:NSEASONS and it states that "articles should consist mainly of well-sourced prose, not just statistics and lists of players." These articles are exactly that: a game schedule with a win/loss record, player rosters and statistics. There's no prose and what references there are are almost entirely dead links.

Even if these articles were improved with prose, they're never going to be as encyclopedic as say, 1986 New York Mets season because these are all years in which the Florida Gators accomplished nothing of note, so there's no hope that the articles will ever meet WP:NSEASONS' allowance for "national championship season[s] at the top collegiate level". A Train^talk 09:32, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Softball-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:20, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:20, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:21, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:27, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Florida Gators softball. NSEASONS also says "It is strongly recommended that those articles be redirected to the team page if no sourced prose can be created." If no prose is added to these articles then they should be redirected. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 08:27, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Per YellowDingo. I'm open to keeping if someone can show me some coverage of the seasons in reliable sources, but I haven't been able to find anything. Smartyllama (talk) 15:11, 15 September 2016 (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.