Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southeastern Conference Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 17:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Southeastern Conference Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year

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Award fails WP:GNG. Jrcla2 (talk) 01:55, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. Jrcla2 (talk) 13:52, 23 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per nomination. This is a non-notable academic award in a college sports context.  I, for one, do not want to minimize the importance of academic excellence among college student-athletes, but this award clearly fails the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG (insufficient significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources), as required for inclusion as a stand-alone Wikipedia article.  The proper way to handle this is to include mention of the award in the bio articles for each of its notable recipients, for whom the award does represent a significant honor and accomplishment.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:33, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Dirtlawyer1. It's a nice honor but not one that gets much independent coverage. Rikster2 (talk) 21:36, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. The award is definitely not the most popular award, but it does get independent coverage. Every newspaper that reports SEC Player of the year or Coach of the year is also reporting scholar-athlete of the year. It is one of the 5 awards that come out each year, just some examples over the years such as the Washington Times ,WCBI, or The Courier Journal . Also there are multiple page with a similar format for other categories such as List of CCHA Scholar-Athlete of the Year, List of ECAC Hockey Student-Athlete of the Year, etc. Blairjs (talk) 05:23, 24 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Blairjs, one-sentence mentions (or less), as listed by you, do not constitute significant coverage sufficient to satisfy the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:57, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mr. Guye (talk) 04:33, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not a notable honor... and i'd also support deleting the two non notable hockey award pages linked to above. Spanneraol (talk) 15:04, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete No independent coverage to meet GNG. 204.126.132.231 (talk) 18:10, 11 February 2015 (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.