Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Wall (basketball)


 * 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. Fritzpoll (talk) 19:48, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

John Wall (basketball)

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High school athlete, fails WP:ATHLETE. Prodego talk  17:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Keep- Meets general notability guidelines. Umbralcorax (talk) 17:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep As said above. He may not need the specifics of WP:ATHLETE, however he meets the WP:GNG which superseeds the specific guideline.--Cube lurker (talk) 18:25, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Basketball is one sport in which players can receive national attention at the high school level, largely because the best seniors will end up in the NBA after a year or two. John Wall has received a substantial amount of media attention, and there's more out there than what is currently cited in the article. Zagalejo^^^ 19:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:02, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. It's very interesting to compare this AfD with this one. As policy and guidelines are supposed to reflect practice I propose that we should say in WP:ATHLETE that North American sports are subject to completely different standards from those in the rest of the world. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:53, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer to keep that article, too, based on this. That said, I don't really follow soccer, and the WP:FOOTY people seem to have their own established standards, so I'll probably just let that AFD proceed without me. Zagalejo^^^ 05:14, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Clearly notable. --bender235 (talk) 13:17, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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