Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edorian McCullough


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The result was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 20:07, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Edorian McCullough

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Never played professionally, fails WP:ATH and WP:NSPORT.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  20:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  --  Eagles   24/7   (C)  20:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
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 * 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) 20:46, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep appears to have played professionally in Europe. Google News shows around 300+ articles on the subject matter and a cursory review of the articles seem to show notability of the individual for his college playing.--Paul McDonald (talk) 22:57, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Playing in NFL Europe does not satisfy WP:NSPORT.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  23:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. The article has been substantially re-written and has 33 sources, about half of which are feature stories on McCullough.  He played for one of the top college football teams in the USA, the Texas Longhorns, and played on the Frankfurt Galaxy team that advanced to the 2007 World Bowl.  It appears that WP:NSPORT has taken no position on whether the NFL Europa qualifies a player for presumed notability.  In any event, he has been the subject of extensive, non-trivial coverage in the mainstream media.  There have been more than 15 feature stories about him in The Dallas Morning News alone.  The Dallas Morning News is not a small-town newspaper giving attention to a local athlete; it's one of the 20 largest circulation newspapers in the USA.  See List of newspapers in the United States.  Cbl62 (talk) 04:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Quite obviously satisfies WP:GNG. cmadler (talk) 13:20, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
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