Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Don Duncan


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The result was keep. Drmies (talk) 03:46, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Joe Don Duncan

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fails WP:NGRIDIRON and WP:GNG Joeykai (talk) 07:15, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. Duncan was a Division II All-American tight end (selected by the American Football Coaches Association) and an Associated Press Little All-America team selection who received significant coverage in multiple, reliable and independent media outlets.  With this level of coverage, he passes muster under WP:GNG.  Examples of the coverage include: (1) this from The Denver Post, (2) this from KCSG, (3) this from The Spectrum, (4) this from the Deseret News, (5) this, (6) this, (7) this, and (8) this from The Press-Enterprise,(9) this from The Oregonian, (10) this from St. George News, (11) this from Dixie Sun News (arguably not independent), (12) this and (13)  this from the Mile High Report (some uncertainty as to reliability as to this final source). Cbl62 (talk) 18:44, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sailor Talk! 08:15, 3 October 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep as a WP:GNG pass, per Cbl62's sources. Ejgreen77 (talk) 05:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 13:05, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - Notable Division II college football Little All-America selection. Although I believe this is a much closer call than Cbl62 does -- we should not even be discussing coverage by SBNation/"Mile High Report" and the university's student media for purposes of establishing notability -- I count at least four articles in independent, reliable media that constitute significant coverage of the subject's college career and All-America honors linked by Cbl above.  I am less than impressed with the bloggy one-paragraph mentions in the hometown newspaper of the university, and, as I mentioned in another pending AfD, I am concerned and conflicted by articles about former CFB players whose "technical" satisfaction of GNG is based entirely on sports column coverage of their failed attempts to make a regular season NFL roster.  This latter issue is problematic and has led to a growing cluster of perma-stubs about which we can only say that that the subject played for CFB Team X, and he was signed as a free agent and cut by NFL Team Y without ever having played a down in a pro game.  I'm not sure what the encyclopedic content, if any, is in such articles, and we really need to find a better way of analyzing of such cases.  Fortunately, that problem is not at issue in the case of Joe Don Duncan.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)


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