Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1979–80 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team
Actually, I don’t think this fails  ''except'' that the current poor article construction doesn’t hit the standard that ''“Team season articles should consist mainly of well-sourced prose, not just statistics and lists of players. Wikipedia is not a stats directory.”'' But the last line of that section says: “It is strongly recommended that those articles be redirected to the team page if no sourced prose '''can be''' created.” This team was ranked in the top 10 most of the year, went to the NCAA Tournament, and had a highly-publicized regular-season game against Kentucky when both teams were ranked in the top five nationally. Sourced prose absolutely can be created and this isn’t a close case (like a middling team would be). The article needs prose written and sourced, and I am not a big fan of people writing articles and not bothering to demonstrate notability from the start, but I am even less of a fan of articles being deleted as “not notable” if the subject is in fact “notable
— User:Rikster2, 12:03, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NSEASONS (Wikipedia:Notability)