Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Blankenship


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete; may be editorially redirected to where ever.  Sandstein  22:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Bill Blankenship

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Nominating for deletion: assistant football coach and college football player, has not met guidelines for notability set forth in WikiProject College football/Notability.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Level 3 headings are used in AFD votes, not Level 2 headings. Raymie Humbert (TrackerTV) (receiver, archives) 18:39, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete concurred with Paulmcdonald. Tim (talk) 18:52, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, Re: Paulmcdonald. Isn't notable enough. JKBrooks85 (talk) 19:49, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable college coach, high school coach and player. ––Bender235 (talk) 19:50, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Commment WikiProject College football does not automatically extend notability to assistant collegiate coaches, but they can achieve notability through other means. See Assistant Coach section of the College Football Notability essay.  High School football players and coaches likewise do not meet notability guidelines because they have not performed at the highest level of amatuer sports as outlined in WP:ATHLETE.  While the current content of the article would serve as great supplemental material for an existing article, there really must be some other qualification of notability.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:20, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm neutral, but leaning towards delete. I'm not very familiar with the requirements for this type of article (articles about football coaches), but it seems to meet the basic criteria of WP:BIO. It doesn't, however, appear to meet the additional criteria. I'm not seeing any kind of notable awards he's won or anything, and it's not like he's an NFL coach or something. Hmmm, I just don't know. GO-PCHS-NJROTC  (Messages) 20:00, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  21:30, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's thousands of ex-college players that became low-level coaches in college. Thankfully, Wikipedia's notability policy excludes them. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 01:47, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Question Just curious... why "thankfully" ?? I'd like to see the article stay, but it just doesn't qualify and I think that's more sad than happy...--Paul McDonald (talk) 02:58, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * "Thankfully", because otherwise this encyclopedia would just be a myspace/facebook. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 03:30, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete with a special notation added to Talk:University of Tulsa Talk:Tulsa_Golden_Hurricane that the article can be temporarily userfied should anyone need it to expand articles related to the University's football program. I agree with Paul McDonald, this information should be part of a larger article.  As an alternative to delete, redirect to University of Tulsa Tulsa_Golden_Hurricane and fully-protect the redirect.  This will preserve the history. This will require at least a mention of him in the target article for the redirect to make sense. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  14:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC) Updated with changed redirect target by davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  on 19:07, 29 June 2008 (UTC) - thanks Matt91486.
 * A better redirect might be to Tulsa_Golden_Hurricane. matt91486 (talk) 16:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed that is better. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  19:07, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.