Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Stick


 * 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   delete. – Juliancolton  | Talk 00:03, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Mike Stick

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Baseball player bio that provides no evidence of notability. The claimed involvement with the Chicago Cubs, is not borne out by searching for him in past team members on the Cubs' official website. However, the article does appear to be advertising his role as owner of a franchised sports medicine facility. Astronaut (talk) 23:40, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete A search of baseball-reference.com shows nothing either. Any article that starts out with the claim that someone "was a Major League Baseball outfielder" is going to be checked on Wikipedia, so don't use that as a pickup line either.  It would be poetic justice to redirect this to Microphone gaffe for anyone thinking of a "stuck mike".  Mandsford (talk) 15:24, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions.  --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  18:30, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete As Mandsford said, b-r shows nothing, including no minor league appearances. Gnews search gets no hits after 1995, his last year in college, and those 9 gnews hits are all passing mentions.-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  18:35, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * A little more research: Also can't find a gnews/web hit that shows Stick ever signed with the Cubs at all, even a minor league contract. The Creighton 2006 media guide says he did, but that's the only place I can find it. Since that info was probably supplied by Stick, I don't think we can use that as an independent source.-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  19:05, 28 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete There is no evidence that he was an actual MLB player, nor any other notable actions.  black ngold29  18:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Here is his professional record: Kinston eagle (talk) 22:17, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. My guess, given the timeline, is that he was brought into camp as a replacement player by the Cubs during the strike in 1995. Those guys generally aren't considered notable (or counted as MLB players unless they appeared in real MLB games before or after), so I think this probably fails on notability and should be deleted. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 03:15, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - just another wannabe scab, never actually got to The Big Game. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


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