Talk:Steve Belichick/Archive 1

Speedy deletion
I contest the proposed speedy deletion. Several articles link to this one, so Mr Belichick probably is not irrelevant. -- Robert Weemeyer (talk) 10:30, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Admittedly, I didn't check Whatlinkshere for Steve Belichick, because when I originally checked, the page was at Steve belichick. The subject seems to be of notability, but the article needs a huge rewrite. I'll remove the request and tag the page. haz (talk) 10:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Prodded. If the tag is removed, I urge AfD. B.Wind (talk) 04:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Notability
Just do a search on Steve Belichick in Google and the question of notability is answered. He is considered a "Navy Coaching Legend", his death was covered by all the major papers (Washington Post, New York times)... This article needs a lot of work but you can't call him non-notable. --  At am a chat 00:47, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Plagiarism a Possibility
I'm sorry to say that at least several sentences in this articles seem to have been lifted word for word (or virtually word-for word) from David Halberstam's book "Education of a Coach."

For example: "Steve Belichick [had been] a very good high school football player, fast and tough." is in the Halberstam book, as is the sentence "Western Reserve, later Case Western Reserve, was an oasis for Steve, a very good college..."

Shouldn't the Halberstam source material be paraphrased -- or else quoted with quote marks?

Andrew Szanton, 12/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.179.134 (talk) 06:57, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Complete Plagarism
Another person noted that some of this article may be plagarized. I have just finished the section form David Halberstam's book "The Education of a Coach" and the "Career" section is as close to verbatim as is possible. The ENTIRE article should be footnoted as from Mr. Halberstam's book and not the one small section.
 * That is correct. I have deleted it and will start again from scratch.  Please do not introduce copyrighted material into Wikipedia. Thank you. Chick Bowen 21:55, 30 August 2009 (UTC)