Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Symons (American football)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  01:38, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Scott Symons (American football)

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Fails WP:GNG. An Assistant Coach with all sourcing to his employers Slywriter (talk) 00:39, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, American football,  and Texas. Shellwood (talk) 10:03, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete it's possible that an assistant coach can generate enough press to pass WP:GNG or another measure, but not very often. This case does not appear to be an exception.  The sources in the article and others that I have found appear to either fail the "independent" test or are simple "transaction-type" news blurbs.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:32, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete The only sources available are of the WP:ROUTINE variety WP:BASIC in nature and do not go beyond an ordinary announcement (e.g. "School X hires Scott Symons as Defensive Coordinator") and most of which are press releases from the universities themselves, therefore not WP:INDEPENDENT. Therefore this fails WP:GNG  Frank   Anchor  15:48, 1 July 2022 (UTC) (note: modified to reflect my misinterpretation of WP:ROUTINE  Frank   Anchor  19:40, 1 July 2022 (UTC))
 * Comment while I agree with the final position, I do feel the need to point out that WP:ROUTINE applies to events and not people.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Significant coverage is the similar language in WP:NBASIC, which applies to people.  Slywriter (talk) 16:32, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's what my search was able to find: SMU to hire Liberty defensive coordinator Scott Symons from the Dallas News (maybe SIGCOV); Memphis hires Symons as inside LBs coach from The Commercial Appeal (via Newspapers.com) (SIGCOV); SMU hires Liberty's DC Scott Symons as DC from 247Sports (SIGCOV); Symons heading to SMU, Willis cherishes final LU game, and more from The News & Advance (maybe SIGCOV?); Scott Symons to be named Liberty’s Defensive Coordinator from ASOR (probably SIGCOV. Not sure about reliability); and Liberty DC Scott Symons to be named DC at SMU from ASOR (probably SIGCOV. Not sure about reliability). Seems pretty borderline. I am neutral for now. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:18, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Most of the coverage I find appears to be articles and press releases of the "X hired by Y" sort, with the details in these basically rehashing his resume to that point. WP:GNG doesn't appear to be met. -- Kinu t/c 22:57, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, I do not see significant in-depth coverage here.-- Mvqr (talk) 12:21, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, I don't really see them as being notable at this point in time. There's bound to be some coverage of any hiring in this day and age, but it's not exactly a significant amount in this case. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:24, 4 July 2022 (UTC)


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