Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of SLAM Magazine cover athletes (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. The Helpful  One  15:55, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

List of SLAM Magazine cover athletes
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Wikipedia is not a directory of magazine covers. The individuals on this list are clearly notable, but they are not notable for having appeared on this magazine cover. There do not appear to be reliable sources that discuss the phenomenon of being on this magazine cover other than trivial mentions that one athlete or another happens to have been on it contained within longer pieces that are about other subjects. Otto4711 (talk) 13:44, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weakish keep The covers have received a fair amount of discussion (,, etc), and some have been credited with popularizing certain more obscure players (like Rafer Alston), so this seems like a reasonable spinout of the article on the magazine. Zagalejo^^^ 19:11, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Can't tell about the Chicago Tribune source because it's subscription, but it looks from the snippet that it's a profile of Iverson that has a couple of sentences in which the cover is mentioned. The books include a few paragraphs out of multi-hundred page books. I would suggest that the information you've found would serve as a basis for a section in the magazine's article but don't establish that the list of every cover model is notable. Otto4711 (talk) 20:11, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete – some of the covers may indeed have some notability, but does that quantify having an entire list? I say no. MuZemike 19:13, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. wikicruft. another embarrassment to something that is trying to be a good encyclopedia. Kiwikibble (talk) 05:25, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * BLP violations are an embarrassment. This article is more or less innocuous. Zagalejo^^^ 05:38, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete, I don't think just a list of magazine cover athletes is encyclopedic. J I P  | Talk 06:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete the collection itself doesn't meet WP:N, which is needed to be the independant subject of an article. Also Wikipedia isnt an indiscriminate collection of information, nor is it a directory.  Them  From  Space  11:55, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.