Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stu Aberdeen


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The result was speedy keep as nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) MrClog (talk) 09:10, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Stu Aberdeen

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I'm a bit on the fence. Mr. Aberdeen was the subject of an obituary by the AP which was published in the NYT -- it was rather short, but it may be considered SIGCOV. However, I cannot find any other source that could potentially be considered SIGCOV, thereby failing WP:GNG. Subject also fails WP:NCOLLATH. MrClog (talk) 23:00, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep. While he may not have a lot of coverage, that could be due to the fact that he died suddenly at the age of 43 in 1979. Despite his relatively short coaching tenure, he is still notable. He was the head coach at an NCAA Division I university, he won a national championship at Acadia, the Coach of the Year Award in Canada is named after him, and there are several articles about his time as an assistant at Tennessee. Eknight2012 (talk) 23:49, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comment. A few notes from me: (1) Being a NCAA Division I coach is not sufficient per WP:NCOLLATH, and neither is the national award. (2) Where is your source for the Coach of the Year award? I can't find it online. (3) Unfortunately, if someone dies young, s/he isn't exempt from the general notability guideline. --MrClog (talk) 00:27, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Here is confirmation of the USports (Canadian version of the NCAA) National Coach of the Year being named in his honor. I will add some more references later and weigh in once I am done. There isn’t much on line, but his whole life/career were pre-internet. I searched him on newspapers.com and there are literally thousands of articles. I just need to sift through them to pull the significant stuff out of the bare mentions. Rikster2 (talk) 14:18, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. Keep since references have been added – Sabbatino (talk) 09:17, 12 April 2020 (UTC) 16:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep – I added several sources to the article and there are a number of others I could have added but the article would need significant fleshing out to fit them in. But bottom line is, he meets WP:GNG. Here is what I found out about Aberdeen in my research yesterday: He was highly successful at Acadia when the program had not been successful prior, he served as the Canadian mens national team for a while in the 60s, as an assistant at Tennessee he was responsible for some of the biggest recruiting wins in school history (Bernard King, Ernie Grunfeld, Reggie Johnson, etc.), he actually coached the Vols through most of his last season there as head coach Mears was sick, he had landed two of the biggest recruits in Marshall history (including future NBA player Leo Rautins as a transfer) the month before his death (they subsequently went elsewhere after he died) and that he was mentor for several assistant coaches who went on to be head coaches. I think his career and life ending pre-internet is why it’s hard to find sources via Google search. As an aside, it’s been my experience that NCAA division I head basketball coaches tend to meet GNG so I wonder if WP:NCOLLATH should be tweaked. Rikster2 (talk) 12:13, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per Rikster2. Clearly passes GNG. Jweiss11 (talk) 12:49, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets GNG per the work done by Rikster2 above. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 15:44, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:GNG and WP:BASIC, per the sourcing and improvements to the article provided by Rikster2. Ejgreen77 (talk) 01:37, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep (nomination withdrawn). Thanks for adding the newspaper sources via Newspapers.com (I should request access to Newspapers.com too, much more newspapers then newspaperarchive.com). --MrClog (talk) 09:09, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


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