Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Pittman


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The result was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 20:09, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Billy Pittman

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Never played professionally, fails WP:ATH and WP:NSPORT.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  20:32, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  --  Eagles   24/7   (C)  20:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  --  Eagles   24/7   (C)  20:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Preliminary comment/question. There have been 10 college football players nominated for deletion in a 20-minute span today by Eagles247.  It will take time to research each of these.  Can you confirm that, before nominating, you reviewed the google news hits to determine whether these players had sufficient coverage while playing college ball to meet general notability standards? Cbl62 (talk) 20:50, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep key player on 2005 national championship team. Lots of coverage--no question.--Paul McDonald (talk) 23:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Such as? And being a "key player" is not make somebody notable.  Grsz 11  02:01, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Pittman was the leading receiver on the Texas Longhorns 2005 national championship team.  He was the subject of a huge amount of press coverage, including feature stories in national media outlets like Sports Illustrated, USA Today,, Associated Press,, and the Chicago Tribune.  His story of overcoming Bell's Palsy to become a football star was one of the big story-lines of the 2005 season. Cbl62 (talk) 00:39, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Coverage of him personally (not trivial mentions of him as a member of the team) in outlets like Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune clearly establishes notability. cmadler (talk) 13:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
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