Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2018 Kansas City Chiefs vs Los Angeles Rams

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. (non-admin closure) Dusti ^{*Let's talk!*} 06:42, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2018 Kansas City Chiefs vs Los Angeles Rams[edit]

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2018 Kansas City Chiefs vs Los Angeles Rams (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats) (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) While this certainly was a great game, it fails WP:NSPORTS, with most of the article dedicated to stats such as the game summary and records broken. — Chevvin 12:14, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep @Chevvin: I'll have to challenge this deletion (peacefully). I think this article is notable, being considered the game of the year, 1000+ total yards, and having multiple records broken (how are records not notable?). If you believe it is missing something important, I'd happily add it. EDG 543 (talk) 12:41, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

While I certainly don't disagree with the fact that this game was very good, there is very little in the article that isn't a game summary and records (which fails WP:NOTSTATS; for a good example of an American football game that meets and exceeds the guidelines, see Miracle in Miami). Additionally, a lot of the sources used were from routine coverage of the game (WP:SPORTSEVENT), which doesn't show notability. Responding to your comment about records, as far as I'm aware, records don't necessarily make a game notable by itself (we have no articles for the two even more higher-scoring games in the NFL). Overall, I feel that the article, although well-written, simply isn't notable enough and is already well-covered in the Rams and Chiefs individual season pages, as well as the list of highest scoring NFL games. Hopefully this clarifies my beliefs a little bit, and I hope that you don't take this personally, as the article is well-written and we could always use more article creators. — Chevvin 14:22, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Chevvin:OK, I did some research and its very uncommon for NFL games to be relocated. Would that make it more notable (If I expanded the short section)? EDG 543 (talk) 17:35, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 13:11, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 13:11, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 13:11, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

keep In addition to the tremendous coverage the game received just for the game play itself, there is also additional notability from the efforts of and failure to play the game in Mexico City. Changing the venue of the game on such short notice had definite WP:IMPACT which also leads to notability. While some of the game-play sources are statistics, most are from feature articles that are clearly WP:NOTROUTINE at all. Therefore, the event passes WP:GNG quite easily. There are likely other measures that this event also passes if anyone feels the need to look into them.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:52, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the content may need work, but the topic is notable as per Paul McDonald. Lepricavark (talk) 18:34, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per EDG 543 and Paul McDonald. Mosaicberry (talk) 18:59, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Passes WP:GNG. -- Dane ^talk 02:14, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the game was hyped and is historic, and passes WP:GNG. James-the-Charizard (talk) 14:22, 19 April 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.