Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Sands (football player)


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:13, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Robert Sands (football player)

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This article's creator has a habit of creating articles for borderline-notable or non-notable subjects. This article in question is about a freshman football player. I see no notability for this article; he has won no awards and it seems his biggest highlight is a forced fumble. Timneu22 (talk) 11:16, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all It would be permissible to put this and the other four articles in a group nomination, given that the common thread is that they are all the product of someone's attempt to make individual biographies of this year's West Virginia University Mountaineers football team. I appreciate the nominator's decision to make individual nominations out of fairness concerns, but the article creator hasn't distinguished between players.  As Category:West Virginia Mountaineers football players demonstrates, somebody has created a shrine for their favorite team, and there are more than these five articles.  We live in a strange world where some people would debate whether an individual brain surgeon is notable, but believe that all college athletes are entitled to their own Happy Meal toy.  Mandsford (talk) 15:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * delete again does not meet the significant 3rd party coverage of WP:BIO. No assertion of notability in the profile, the only source in the article. (In aggregate, these would be better suited to a personal webpage. Wikipedia is not a place to enshrine college football players. This comment applies to all three.)Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  16:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: Agree; I suggested to the editor that he should create a Wikia page. Timneu22 (talk) 16:55, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:02, 14 January 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.