Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bear Pascoe


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The result was Keep (NAC).  American Eagle  ( talk ) 22:32, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Bear Pascoe

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Delete hasn't played professionally, only drafted. Fails WP:ATHLETE. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:00, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  23:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Canadian   Nine  00:06, 29 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep - Played at a Division I FBS school, highest amateur level of American football: meets WP:ATHLETE. Significant media coverage : meets WP:BIO. That search, coincidentally, has a feature article on the very first hit. Meets WP:BIO. This nomination is a headscratcher... Strikehold (talk) 00:07, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Played highest level of pro and amatuer football.-- Giants27 T/  C  02:11, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per Strikehold. The mass college football deletion requests are getting out of hand.  There have been more AfD's directed at college football players in the past 3 days than in the entire month of March.  What's going on?  As further evidence of Pascoe's indisputable notability, I got 1,500 hits in a Newsbank search on Bear Pascoe.  I don't have time to link even the feature articles about him, but here is a sampling of features specifically about Pascoe: (1) "A Bulldog and a cowboy: Tight end's true passion is rodeo", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 30, 2007, (2) "FSU's Bear looking for an ambush", The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 14, 2007, (3) "Bulldog Living a Rodeo Life - Bear Pascoe Leads Fresno State Lineup", Albuquerque Journal, December 18, 2008, (4) "WAC Notes: Fresno tight end Pascoe one of the best at position", Las Cruces Sun-News, July 24, 2008], (5) 60 Seconds with Fresno State's Bear Pascoe", The Fresno Bee, October 26, 2007, (6) "WAC Media Days Notebook: Pascoe among top tight ends in nation", El Paso Times, July 24, 2008, (7) "On the field, Pascoe 's no teddy Bear - Tight end's nasty streak helps him join nation's elite", The Fresno Bee, August 20, 2008, (8) "This brutish Bear embodies 'Dogs football", The Fresno Bee, September 2, 2007, (9) "Little Bear grows up - Bear Pascoe is Granite Hills High's first full-ride Division I scholarship athlete", The Fresno Bee, June 4, 2004, (10) "Pascoe 's return sparks Granite Hills", The Fresno Bee, January 27, 2004, (11) "Pascoe set to conclude Bulldog, Valley career," The Porterville Recorder, November 26, 2008, (12) "Grin and Bear it: Pascoe wants to play QB," Tulare Advance-Register,  August 17, 2004. Cbl62 (talk) 02:23, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Failing WP:ATHLETE is not sufficient for deletion since it's a complementary guideline. I can't judge the sources since I don't have access to them, but they could well meet WP:GNG. That needs to be checked first. - Mgm|(talk) 10:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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