Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goodyear Silents


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The result was   keep. Courcelles 01:21, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Goodyear Silents

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Tagged for notability for 5 years; couldn't confirm notability Boleyn (talk) 20:07, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. GBooks and GScholar show multiple sources to confirm the significance of the Goodyear Silents sports teams in deaf culture, see e.g.  ("The Goodyear Silents football team was the pride of the deaf community between 1917 and 1922 . . .") and . --Arxiloxos (talk) 23:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are plenty of references. In addition to Arxiloxos' Signs Of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II pp. 77-79 and Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950 p. 79, there's also Deaf Jews in Sports: The Goodyear Silents Championship Football Team Had A Jewish Fullback and season by season records. The Silents are golden. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:32, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 12:50, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 12:50, 16 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep I agree, thanks to the research above.--Paul McDonald (talk) 12:57, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. The research efforts by Clarityfiend and Arxiloxos demonstate that the subject passes general notability guideline.  Cbl62 (talk) 19:27, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. A good example of a notable subject that satisfies the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG and WP:ORG, but would have been easy to overlook without the efforts of Clarity and Arxiloxos to do some digging.  The resulting encyclopedic content is well worth the effort, and provides interesting material regarding deaf athletes in the context of American footballthanks, guys.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:22, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Just when you think you've seen it all... (not that I believed that anyway). Automatic Strikeout  ( T  •  C ) 02:55, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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