Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arkansas–Texas Tech football rivalry

Arkansas–Texas Tech football rivalry

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Subject does not meet the WP:NRIVALRY due to a lack of independent, significant coverage. The only WP:SIGCOV source (#2) is from a Lubbock based outlet, which is WP:LOCAL. Per WP:NOPAGE, this can be covered at the articles for the respective teams. Let'srun (talk) 16:40, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports, American football, Arkansas, and Texas. Let'srun (talk) 16:40, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:GNG with sources such as It’s about time: Texas Tech-Arkansas rivalry a casualty of this era, Rivalry’s nostalgia palpable and Game Recognizes Game: The Saga of Texas vs Arkansas Through the Decades. Please note that WP:LOCAL links to an essay (i.e. neither an official policy or guideline) called Wikipedia:Places of local interest. Alvaldi (talk) 18:23, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per unsigned comments from User:Alvaldi. Cbl62 (talk) 22:55, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just a note that the last source is about the Arkansas-Texas football rivalry. Let'srun (talk) 23:03, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the sources above. BUT I have to stress that WP:LOCAL should be hesitantly used for rivalry articles because of independence. These two teams are lucky to have sources outside the cities that they are based in. However, other teams should have more outside the realm of their city feud. If anything, it shows bias about a team that may not actually have a rivalry, but one city/area certainly thinks so. I am not saying don't use them to support GNG, but don't use them as the only sources. Conyo14 (talk) 06:05, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strongly disagree. As Alvaldi notes, WP:LOCAL is neither an official policy or guideline ... and on its face WP:LOCAL relates only to places of local interest. Prior efforts to restrict the use of local newspaper sources to Wikipedia as a whole have been rejected by the community. The one exception (not applicable here) is WP:AUD in WP:NCORP. Cbl62 (talk) 14:30, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]