Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dean Tatarian


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The result of the debate was delete. –  Sceptr e  ( Talk  ) 09:09, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Dean Tatarian
This article is about the unfortunate experiences of a high school baseball coach. I would have nominated it for speedy deletion, but there is a possible claim to notability. The coach played on a minor league team and played on a major league team during a strike. -- Kjkolb 13:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * A load of nonsense. Delete CLW 14:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep if it can be cleaned up and referenced. There is a List of Major League Baseball replacement players, and only a few of the entries on the list had appeared in any MLB games prior to the strike. Lbbzman 21:21, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Delete based on Colin Kimbrell's clarification. Did not play in majors = not notable in my book and is consistent with WP:BIO. Thanks for the clarification. Lbbzman 17:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I created the page List of Major League Baseball replacement players, and the list contains only replacement players who played in MLB at some point in their careers, while Mr. Tatarian does not appear to have ever advanced beyond the minors.  (Replacement players did not play any games of record; they went through spring training, appeared in exhibitions, and then were disbanded before the start of the regular season.)  If the list included all replacement players, it would contain more than a thousand names, 95% of them redlinks. I recognize that the inclusion statement for the list was ambiguous in this respect, and have corrected it.  I'm not offering an opinion on the notability of his minor-league career because I'm at work and I don't have access to any of the relevant reference materials, and it's not out of the question that he could've been a minor-league All-Star or a notable amateur, something like that. -Colin Kimbrell 16:45, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I tagged this as cleanup after a browse that took me from List of famous strike-breakers. I think my keep/delete vote would sit on the fence of how 'famous' this strike-break made him; if it was notable at the time, it would be suitable for inclusion. However presumably in order to be able to be a strike-breaker, there would have to be 17 other strike-breakers too; this page should then be summarised and included into a page on the more general strike-breaking, as it is too biographical in and of itself. --User:Firien § 13:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


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