Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2023 July 14

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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 keep‎. Closing a second time after XFDCloser couldn't handle an article move. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:43, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Colonial Athletic Association Football Conference

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The information in this article is already included in the Colonial Athletic Association article and has been for over a decade. The consensus of previous discussions was not to separate the articles, making this article unnecessary as it is a new article created in May 2023 that is merely a duplicate of information already available on the main article that was created in March 2004.Superman7515 (talk) 00:39, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

• Redirect to Colonial Athletic Association

Brachy08 (Talk)(Contribs) 03:39, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Schools, Football, and United States of America. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:12, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. — Jkudlick ⚓ (talk) 17:25, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
• Redirect to Colonial Athletic Association per previous discussions. — Jkudlick ⚓ (talk) 17:25, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
• Redirect as above. GiantSnowman 09:48, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
• Keep: CAA and CAA Football are separate entities similar to the Missouri Valley Conference and Missouri Valley Football Conference and the ASUN Conference/Western Athletic Conference and United Athletic Conference. In addition, there is enough additional information about the CAA Football League that would warrant its own article. The information has been removed from the Colonial Athletic Association article and moved to this article to shorted the length of the other article. Shl13132 (talk) 15:06, 15 July 2023 (EST)
• Redirect per above. No reason or need to split this off. SportsGuy789 (talk) 15:03, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
  • Keep – Upon further review I agree with User:Shl13132. See the CAA's official announcement (7/20/23) that "The name change will carry over to the league’s football conference, which will be officially recognized as the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference but continue to be referred to as the CAA Football Conference." SportsGuy789 (talk) 17:08, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

*Comment/Question Is this basically similar to the Missouri Valley Conference/Missouri Valley Football Conference situation?-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 17:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

• Yes, this is the same situation. It was also similar to the Southland Conference and the Southland Bowling League before the bowling league was absorbed by Conference USA. They are run by the same administration/use the same branding but are different entities. Shl13132 (talk) 17:48, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

• Keep Per discussion above. It would be a misnomer to merge two separate entites.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 17:59, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
• Keep similarly named but distinct entities. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:16, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
• Keep, as they are distinct entities. Dmoore5556 (talk) 22:36, 20 July 2023 (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.