Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brad Lau


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The result was   delete. —Tom Morris (talk) 10:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Brad Lau

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Fails football notability and college athlete notability as he has never played a game in any pro league, and never won any awards/honors or had much significant non trivial media coverage as a college football player either. Arbor to SJ (talk) 08:28, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Sources don't support assertions of article (e.g. one link shows that Lau ranked 18 of 53 in fullbacks for the 2007 NFL draft.  Not bad, but not a "top pick" and not even in the top third).  The 2007 St Louis Rams Roster doesn't list Lau as a player in 2007 or any other year.  In fact, the Football Database doesn't show Lau as having played for anyone professionally.  His college career was also unspectacular. -- ShinmaWa(talk) 09:22, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Idaho-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:28, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Per nom.  While college players can qualify under GNG, not findin substantial nontrivial coverage in mainstream media sources. Cbl62 (talk) 01:56, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Subject is not entitled to a presumption of notability per WP:NCOLLATH (never received a major college sports award) pr WP:NGRIDIRON (never played an NFL or other professional game).  Google and Google News Archive searches reveal a fair anount of routine and/or trivial coverage, but not multiple, independent, reliable sources as required by the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG.  There are a handful of marginally substantive articles in the Idaho Statesman (hometown newspaper for Boise State), but multiple articles in the same newspaper count as a single source.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Could be notable in the future, but I'm not seeing the amount of coverage that I think would pass muster. If coverage occurs, please post and I'll be happy to review/change.--Paul McDonald (talk) 02:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
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