User talk:TonyTheTiger/Jerry Hardin

Currently the best (most complete) biographical sketch is Best Basketball, which is a WP:SPS since he is Best Basketball.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:37, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Getting over the hurdle
This article is not likely to meet any specific notability standard for basketball biographies (WP:NHOOPS) in the near future. However, I see this article as having a chance to pass WP:GNG based on published media guides from the DI program that he was an assistant coach at and the media guide from his NAIA head coaching position. I would expect that at least one of those (if not both) will have some biographical detail on his basketball career. I am not sure if any of his international experiences would have media guide exposure, but if they do, those can be used as well. Whatever content can be attributed to media guide sources will have a WP:RS and give the reader a chance to WP:V the content. Keep in mind that the purpose of creating a WP biography is not to make the subject feel good or to provide a public advertisement for the subject. The purpose is to summarize the what secondary sources have put in the public domain regarding the subject. Other content is considered unencyclopedic. No matter how much of the deleted version is true, WP relies on WP:TRUTH as presented by secondary sources. WP (like any encyclopedia) is a tertiary source that summarizes secondary sources. P.S. we will need the Author, page number and caption of the Plain Dealer article. We just can't throw around source names without giving the reader any real help in WP:V the content. We can augment the media guides with whatever can be discerned from more recent media mentions if no sources exist with Hardin's biographical history as the focus.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:33, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Further thoughts: You may want to see what kind of releases the The Summit League (then known as the Mid-Continent Conference) produced for the weeks that the team beat those Big Ten Conference teams. Also, if we can track down the dates of those games, maybe a Chicago Tribune story would be relevant. The League Media guide may also have relevant content on the teams for those years. I don't know what league the NAIA school was in but it may have had weekly releases or a media guide.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:34, 6 April 2015 (UTC)