Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Bailey (American football)


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The result was   delete. &mdash;SW&mdash; talk 21:41, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Sean Bailey (American football)

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Mess of an article which seems to contain information on two different players (see history). GNews searches show that there was a player but no sources are significant. It seems clear that neither player ever played professional American football. Fails WP:ATHLETE and WP:GNG Tassedethe (talk) 16:43, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. &mdash;Al E. (talk) 17:13, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. A college football player passes WP:GNG if there is significant, non-trivial coverage in the mainstream media.  My searches aren't coming up with anything to satisfy that standard.  His nephew, Sean Bailey (who played college football in the SEC as a starter for Georgia), seems to have received a lot more coverage, but he's not the subject of the article. My "delete" vote applies to this article about Sean Bailey of Virginia Tech.  I express no opinion for now as to whether the nephew meets WP:GNG, and we don't have to decide that now, because the article is about the uncle.  Cbl62 (talk) 20:48, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note Please be aware that the current article is in main about a Sean Bailey born 1973 who played for Virginia Tech, with mention of a cousin who played for Georgia. The article history shows that the original article was about a Sean Bailey born 1984 who played for Georgia. Tassedethe (talk) 20:56, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying. That's an odd history.  I still vote to "delete" the article which, as it currently stands, is about the Va. Tech player.  Since the current article is not about the former Ga. player, I do not think we can or should preemptively judge his notability.  If and when a current article about the Ga. player is presented (which may be never), we can decide at that time if it should be deleted or kept. Cbl62 (talk) 21:03, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete not seeing the coverage to meet WP:GNG. Have it?  Let me now, I can flip-flop!--Paul McDonald (talk) 23:59, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:37, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete, with extreme prejudice. Never appeared in a regular season NFL game per NFL.com, Pro-Football-Reference.com and databaseFootball.com, therefore there is no presumption of notability per WP:NGRIDIRON.  My search of Google News Archive revealed no non-trivial coverage of his college career in reliable secondary sources, therefore he fails general notability standards per WP:GNG.  We active editors of WP:NFL and WP:CFB really should seriously consider setting up a committee to work through existing American football player articles to purge non-notable players such as this one, and stop relying on others to randomly trip over them.  I would be surprised if there were not hundreds of FB player articles whose subjects also fail any of the applicable notability standards.  Ironically, we do not have stubs for dozens of consensus first-team All-Americans . . . we need to give some careful consideration to the present notability standards for American college and professional football players.  IMHO, he "one appearance, one play" presumption of notability for NFL players is extremely problematic in the absence of any meaningful coverage in reliable secondary sources.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:05, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
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