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This page in a nutshell: Please do not aggressively pursue deltion of historical college football related articles from August through January.

The WikiProject College Football Project Team requests that editors refrain from massive WP:AFD submissions of historical college football articles from August through January.

At the College Football project, we want to make Wikipedia a better place--as best of an encyclopedia as we can. The college football season runs from August through January in the United States, and editors that are enthusiastic about college football tend to place their focus on the current events in college football--specifically the existing season. Editors work on updating team articles, coach and player articles, obtaining photographs, and all the other issues on the current season.

As a result, there is little time for editors to focus on historical college football articles during the season. This can lead to articles being deleted through discussions that do not involve people who understand and follow college football and therefore may not be aware of the historical impact of the sport on society and in the news.

Naturally, the project is not saying "please don't delete articles" because that just is not fair. And if an article should be deleted because it is damaging, incorrect, or otherwise is harful then it must be deleted. But because of the focus of efforts and timeliness of the topic, editors normally reserve the "off-season" (February through July) for working on historical articles. Therefore, we ask that massive deletion nominations of articles that have been around for many months please be saved for the off-season. It is difficult for editors to race to improve existing historical articles when there is so much new information readily available.