Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rohan Marley


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The result was Withdrawn by nominator --B (talk) 20:06, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Rohan Marley

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Son, husband, father. But WP is not the Social Register. (See also WP:NOTINHERITED.) -- Hoary (talk) 02:06, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Nomination withdrawn. When nominated for deletion, this article was primarily about a celeb hubby and dad. However, it did also say: He played pro football in Canada for the now defunct Ottawa Rough Riders. [...] He is currently the owner of the Tuff Gong Clothing line. Neither of these putative assertions of notability was sourced, but anyway merely "playing pro football" (without any elaboration whatever) for this or that team hardly seemed like an assertion of substantive notability (it didn't even assert that he'd appeared in a match), and owning a "clothing line" (company? trademark?) didn't either especially as that "line" didn't itself have an article. So he looked like a nobody to me. Well, it seems that playing pro football does confer notability and anyway there's a substantive amount of news coverage of him doing it. Good work Zagalejo. -- Hoary (talk) 22:57, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions.  —Hoary (talk) 03:47, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  —Hoary (talk) 03:49, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge with Bob Marley and Redirect because the subject seems not entirely NN himself. Greenleaf (talk) 03:55, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination, no need to merge or redirect. JBsupreme (talk) 06:21, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable in his own right, as there are a number of sources which are primarily about him., , , , , etc. The article should probably be stubbed to remove the tabloidy stuff, though. Zagalejo^^^ 06:42, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: I've stubbed and sourced the article. There's a lot of room for expansion. Zagalejo^^^ 07:25, 8 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep "[B]ecause the subject seems not entirely [non-notable] himself" -- Wouldn't that make him notable then? Anyway, he played professional football in the Canadian Football League, so he meets WP:ATHLETE at the very least (source: ). I think he meets WP:BIO anyway though through media coverage. Zagalejo added at least two feature articles entirely about him including one in Sports Illustrated. Strikehold (talk) 09:43, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Strikehold, played pro football thus passes WP:ATHLETE and the sources provided by Zagalejo help to pass WP:GNG.-- Giants27 ( c  |  s ) 14:21, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:ATHLETE based on CFL, and also meets general notability based on non-trivial media coverage focused on him.Cbl62 (talk) 16:21, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per above reasons.--Sugarcubez (talk) 05:28, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep passes WP:ATHLETE as pro football player, passes WP:GNG as generally notable from various sources. Having notable family does not disqualify an article in Wikipedia.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:34, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
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