Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruth Campbell


 * 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. ✗ plicit  12:27, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Ruth Campbell

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The only things known about her is that she played in the AAGPBL in 1949 and her hometown. No stats, no position, not even which team she played on. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:54, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:54, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I suppose this could redirect to List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (A–C), which has just as much of the voluminous info about her. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:58, 6 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Her team isn't even known?!? BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:39, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women and Baseball.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:37, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete in light of lack of any meaningful information about the player, let alone sources, satisfying WP:GNG. Oppose redirect to list; no one is looking for this Ruth Campbell, which is quite a common name. And if anyone is looking specifically for the AAGPBL player in 1949, they can still find it on the list page referenced above or on the AAGBPL.org web site (of which Wikipedia is not a clone/mirror). Cielquiparle (talk) 04:45, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - not finding evidence of significant coverage. Rlendog (talk) 19:49, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. One of the weakest parts of the old WP:NBASE was the granting of 1 game auto-notability to players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, a World War II-era women's novelty league that sought to economically capitalize on the fact that the quality of play in MLB had declined significantly during the WWII era, as so many MLB players were fighting in the war and were not available to play baseball anymore. After an initial blip in publicity during the war years, this league quickly faded into obscurity once the war ended and all of the MLB players came back, and was more or less completely forgotten until nearly 50 years later when a Hollywood movie was released that thrust it back into public consciousness. The end result of all this is that we have created Wikipedia articles about many of the players in this league that are lacking even such basic details as dates of birth and death. In the case of this player in particular, we have no stats at all on her (so, we really don't know if she ever played in this league or not, she could have very well been a benchwarmer who never actually made it out onto the field), or even what team she supposedly played for. To summarize, I would be shocked if any player who played in this league after 1945 has received any type of significant coverage at all. Ejgreen77 (talk) 06:16, 9 October 2022 (UTC)


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