Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derek McDaid


 * 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   keep. Fabricamp, you're on a roll :) (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Derek McDaid

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Minor League Baseball player who has not played in any league higher than an AA (this year) and does not pass the drafted (with much consensus) WikiProject Baseball/Notability guidelines. There is debate within WP:Baseball about minor league players qualifying as "fully professional"

Good faith search (use quotes) brings nothing, no significant coverage of the subject, which means he fails the General notability guidelines. kelapstick (talk) 23:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: This individual appears to be pass WP:BIO. The above search for sources was only for the past month. This Google News Archive search returns many more results. Cunard (talk) 23:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Good catching that, you may want to check most of my other searches (in the last part I was copy/paste the name into my google search), but is that "significant coverage" or more passing mention in an article about the team?--kelapstick (talk) 23:57, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:ATHLETE.-- Giants27 T/  C  01:25, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Come back if/when "WikiProject Baseball/Notability guidelines" actually becomes a guideline. AfD hero (talk) 06:52, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per the above comments, player does not meet requirements according to WP:ATHLETE. Mandermagic (talk) 08:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * comment player does not pass Notability (sports) (unless MID Mid-season all-star is being selected for an all-star game, which I don't think it is) which is a more lax guideline than the proposed notability guideline either.--kelapstick (talk) 15:53, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've added a number of refs and external links that should get this to pass WP:GNG. The All-Star appearance is a bonus on the keep side.-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  23:47, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep seems notability has been establish and there is good link to prove it.  Cheers  Kyle1278 04:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Notability is established on the article, he passes WP:ATHLETE, and the notability stated by the AfD starter is not a guideline. Borgarde (talk) 06:42, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep- seems to have notability, WP:RS might be a struggle, but there is definitely material out there. HJ Mitchell (talk) 09:32, 21 April 2009 (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.