User:TonyTheTiger/sandbox/Jabari Parker

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 * 12012–13 NBA Rookie of the Year
 * 2Also 2013 All-star

In the AFD there is discussion about how little people even care about his high school career. In the table to the right, I present a comparison using the 2012-13 time period because Parker did not begin his college career until November 9, 2013 (UTC). Most 2012 and 2013 viewers were likely seeking his history, which was then mostly high school. He is a rare athlete whose high school career has been chronicled in a Sports Illustrated cover story. This information that so many people have sought should be WP:PRESERVEd. Some hinted that this page would make Jabari Parker's career is more notable than other stars' like LeBron James', even though James had a feature length film (More Than a Game) about his high school career. A wikipedia page is less notable than a feature length film. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS arguments are wrong. E.g. Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2013) and List of presidential trips made by Barack Obama are not evaluated based on whether George Washington or Abraham Lincoln had the same forks. Barack Obama has more content on WP than other earlier President's so he has more forks regardless of who was greater or did more.

At Talk:Jabari_Parker I had noted that when the article got to 60 KB I would prune it back and I had been preparing a fork of the article. The version of the main article that I was paring back from was 192,522 bytes and 59289 characters of readable prose. As of April 19, 2014, Only 228 of the 19873 (1.147%) GAs were longer than 60KB according to User:The ed17/Good articles by prose size. I requested help paring the article down and then came the AFD. During the AFD, the main article was pared down while people were making arguments based on a rapidly changing version of the main article. When the debate opened, the main article was 150,741 bytes and 46,119 characters of readable prose. By the end of the AFD the main article was 82,247 bytes and 25,591 characters of readable prose. Due to the changing nature of the article some people argued that this content was a copy of content in the main article and that the content need only be on one place, while others argued that the content did not need to exist on wikipedia at all.

The article should be restored for the reasons above. If the readership feels that the dedicated high school content is useless, they won't navigate to it. However, if readers want to read more than is in the main article, it will be available. In terms that are appropriate for a WP:DRV, I believe the decision to close was incorrectly reasoned for the following reasons
 * 1) Discussants questioned the importance of Parker's high school career, but his high school career seems to be as important to the reader as the entire biography of many NBA All-Star Game reserves.
 * 2) Some discussants noted that a lot of content in the fork was redundant with the main article, but that article was pared down as the discussion progressed and was pared down even further after the discussion.
 * 3) Some discussants make the argument that his high school content is not relevant content for wikipedia, but the article satisfied WP:N, WP:GNG and WP:ATH; Sports Illustrated did a cover story on it; and it was chock full of high caliber WP:RS.
 * 4) Some discussants wrongly based their argument against this article on whether WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.