Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marquis Johnson (basketball)


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 03:39, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Marquis Johnson (basketball)

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NHOOPS. Article relies heavily on three articles from the same author and publication, Sal Interdonato from the Times Herald-Record: Varsity845 Boys Basketball All-Stars and Johnson eager for his pro Ball debut cover the subject in fair depth, while Pine Bush’s Johnson growing up on the court has a lot of information. However, per GNG, "multiple publications from the same author or organization are usually regarded as a single source for the purposes of establishing notability." There are no other reliable and independent sources providing ample coverage. Runningibis (talk) 01:10, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 04:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 04:58, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * KEEP for now He is a professional basketball player. What more is the team he plays on and the league he is in are based on a new concept of selecting players straight from high school. At least give him a chance his team and league less than a year old. If nothing new a year or so from now then delete. Freetheangels (talk) 07:00, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * This sounds like a cross between WP:ATA, that it will be notable soon, and asking for WP:MERCY of sorts. There is no precedent to automatically grant immunity to a new league. For the record, other players from this fledling league of LaVar Ball's have already been deleted at Articles for deletion/Kezo Brown, Articles for deletion/Harrison Rieger, Articles for deletion/Taylor Kirkham, Articles for deletion/Nate Morris (basketball), and Articles for deletion/Brandon Phillips (basketball). This article should be judged on it's own merits based on existing coverage.—Bagumba (talk) 10:26, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Striking Kezo Brown AfD per 's catch below.—Bagumba (talk) 17:14, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Kezo Brown, actually, was kept. This article seems to satisfy GNG with multiple significant sources, and it is a bit ridiculous to discount them just because they are by the same author. It is not a good in my opinion to keep nominating for deletion these JBA players whose articles are relatively well written and sourced. There are, actually, other sources besides the three that cover Johnson. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 12:21, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The reasons for GNG treating "multiple publications from the same author or organization" as one make a lot of sense in this context.  The idea behind GNG is to show some degree of broad interest.  One person or one publication writing about the same topic over and over again doesn't show any more breadth of coverage than if they wrote a single article about the topic.Rlendog (talk) 15:30, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG with lack of significant coverage in multiple, reliable, independent sources. The only significant coverage is from one publisher, his hometown newspaper Times Herald-Record. The rest are trivial mentions. WP:NHOOPS is not met by playing in LaVar Ball's fledgling Junior Basketball Association.—Bagumba (talk) 17:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Not seeing the independent coverage from reliable sources to meet WP:GNG. Rikster2 (talk) 12:41, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I can certainly tell more sources are needed but how you would deny that he is a professional basketball player and article will be recreated? I think present coverage is more needed than WP:ATA#CRYSTAL. Orientls (talk) 11:51, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Simply being a professional basketball player is not grounds for notability. Papaursa (talk) 17:09, 10 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Local coverage and routine sports reporting are insufficient to meet WP:GNG and he clearly fails to meet WP:NHOOPS. Papaursa (talk) 17:09, 10 September 2018 (UTC)


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