Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Battle for the Butter
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
— User:Dirtlawyer1, 18:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NEVENT||WP:SPORTSEVENT||WP:NEVENT (Wikipedia:Notability)