Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Herb Ruby


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The result was   delete. Tim Song (talk) 16:35, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Herb Ruby

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Played minor league baseball for one season, following a mediocre college baseball career. He enlisted in the military, and it is sourced, but that doesn't make him notable. The only things that might make him notable is coaching a high school basketball team to a state title and a local paper giving an award in his name, but I'd still vote delete. What do you vote? Muboshgu (talk) 17:24, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. —Muboshgu (talk) 17:14, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Are minor league players not notable? Brian Knight Bishop (talk) 17:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:30, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete They have to prove notability under the regular system of extensive coverage in independent and reliable sources. Major League Baseball players are inherently notable under WP:ATHLETE.  "Minor league players, managers, coaches, executives, and umpires are not assumed to be inherently notable." (quoting from WP:NSPORT which sums up the general interpretation by Wikipedia's baseball fans on how to apply inherent notability). Mandsford (talk) 18:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Question he's not notable for minor leage baseball for sure... but he did complete 50 successful bombing missions over Europe in World War II. He may be notable for that... I don't know much about that, but 50 sounds like a lot from what little I do know.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:36, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. IIRC, 50 bombing runs was the 'standard', so if you were on a bomber crew bombing Europe you either did the number of runs or got killed/invalided out. David V Houston (talk) 00:57, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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