Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Smith (coach)


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The result was redirect to Craig Smith (basketball, born 1972). (non-admin closure) sst✈(discuss) 05:13, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Craig Smith (coach)

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Fails WP:COACH Ireneshih (talk) 16:09, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Non-notable bio of coach. Ireneshih (talk) 16:09, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Dakota-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:50, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:50, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:50, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * WP:COACH is a collection of links on helping wikipedians become administrators. It has nothing to do with coaching basketball! Jacona (talk) 17:06, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * WP:NHOOPS is a good start to judging the notability of this individual. Ireneshih, please note that it does not matter whether this article does a good job of expressing the subject's notability, only whether the subject meets the standard of notability. Jacona (talk) 17:12, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * The subject should be considered notable if it passes either WP:NHOOPS or WP:gng Jacona (talk) 17:14, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

*Keep I've had time to follow up on sources, and the subject did in fact win a national coach of the year award in 2007. There are lots of other references, including USA Today. The article doesn't reflect much of this, but the guy passes gng Jacona (talk) 13:09, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Craig Smith (basketball, born 1972). Jacona (talk) 13:22, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep and Merge with Craig Smith (basketball, born 1972). I created a stub for this guy the day before using the correct naming convention. This one now has more info so the best of both should be combined. He definitely meets WP:GNG. Rikster2 (talk) 01:44, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment Looks like this original was a cut and paste job of the stub I created (which did have a RS, which was fine for a 2 sentence stub). Not sure what the editor was trying to do. Rikster2 (talk) 01:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I just ported over the new material to the original article. This can be changed into a redirect as soon as all are satisfied the subject meets GNG. Rikster2 (talk) 01:52, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you clarify which specific article you want to be the redirect? I assume Craig Smith (coach) (which would be consistent with your previous !vote at Talk:Craig Smith (basketball, born 1983).—Bagumba (talk) 20:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, I think the "original article" is not this one nominated, and "this" really is this one nominated for AfD. Was just thrown off by your bolded "keep" as opposed to "redirect"—Bagumba (talk) 20:34, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Rikster's comments above. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:29, 20 November 2015 (UTC)


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