Deletion of The Battle for the Butter

Comment: Seriously?  Six weeks ago, we were having a heated notability debate whether to keep a well-sourced article about a recent Michigan-Notre Dame game that we ultimately decided to delete, by a roughly  4&ndash;1 margin, because the UM-ND game had little lasting historical significance and little continuing media coverage of a meaningful nature per .  This "Battle of the Butter" game in no way qualifies for a presumption of notability under the more specific game notability guidelines of , nor does it appear to satisfy the applicable guidelines of .  In short, there is no reason why this relatively meaningless regular season Division I FCS college football game should have a stand-alone article.  That it presently exists is a testament to inconsistently applied notability standards.  I strongly urge everyone who has participated in this discussion so far to review the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2011 Michigan vs. Notre Dame football game, as well as the event notability guidelines of , and then focus their comments on the applicable notability standards
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NEVENT||WP:SPORTSEVENT||WP:NEVENT)

Comment: to Mike and Mike in the Morning{{spaced ndash}} After consideration, changed my !vote here to merge. (Sidenote: I'm well aware of the prose at , hence the initial "weak keep" !vote). Also, per  an ''actual'' merging of the verified information should occur, not just a "merge" that actually just ends up as a redirect without any of the information specifically/selectively merged
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:PRESERVE)