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 delete. czar 04:03, 19 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Houston–Texas football rivalry

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WP:GNG requires If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list. "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content." Since 2018, only game citations and exceedingly thin WP:PRIMARY sources been located. Web searches do not readily turn up necessary citations, even via the blog networks. The most recent game dates to 2002, so other historical sources might offer support. Two prior AfDs trend to deletion ( August 2018, October 2018). UW Dawgs ( talk) 02:24, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete as nom. Fails GNG. UW Dawgs ( talk) 02:35, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Correction, the 2nd AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houston–Texas football rivalry resulted in delete. Therefore this vesion is elligible for Wikipedia:Speedy deletion via Template:Db-g4. At this point, it's easier to let this AfD play out. UW Dawgs ( talk) 04:20, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 02:35, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 02:35, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete I only see one prior AfD, but I !voted delete in that AfD, and absolutely nothing has changed since then. Might be worth a salt. SportingFlyer T· C 02:51, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

This is the third. The first can be seen at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houston-Texas football rivalry. Cbl62 ( talk) 04:11, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Cheers, I was confused because there's something wrong with the link-box, but apparently the article was renamed in between AfDs. SportingFlyer T· C 05:51, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply

The difference is subtle. One uses a "hyphen" and the other uses a "dash" and that results in different characters in the titles, therefore a less typical AFD progression. Ugh, character encoding is hard.-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 15:04, 15 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Ah yes, the em–dash from hell. SportingFlyer T· C 16:18, 15 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete the article was recreated by Nomel6510 with an edit summary that noted Recreated page due to WP:N. This was at odds with the previous AfD, which ended in delete due to the non-notability of these teams' purported "rivalry". Nothing much has changed since then in my eyes. PCN02WPS ( talk | contribs) 16:39, 12 June 2020 (UTC) reply
• Speedy delete per WP:G4 Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion. There is no new rationale nor new information provided.-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 12:52, 15 June 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete on procedural grounds as noted above by PCN and Paul. No new grounds presented for recreating the article after prior AFD resulted in "delete" decision. Cbl62 ( talk) 16:22, 15 June 2020 (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.