Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/T. G. Yearwood


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  06:37, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Gene Yearwood

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No significant coverage about coach, fails WP:NCOLLATH. Reywas92Talk 05:23, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Reywas92Talk 05:23, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Engr.  Smitty   Werben 05:55, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Engr.  Smitty   Werben 05:55, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. I did find some coverage in the Newport News paper (the city where he coached), e.g., here, here, here, here. However, WP:GNG suggests we need WP:SIGCOV in multiple, reliable and independent sources, which I am not finding. Note also that The Apprentice School is not a college or university; it is an apprenticeship school operated by a shipbuilding and dry dock company. For anyone who might want to dig further, this may provide some leads. I will keep an open mind if SIGCOV is brought forward from other reliable sources. Cbl62 (talk) 06:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: Just plain fails SIGCOV; no mentions beyond casual or routine sports coverage.   Ravenswing     18:09, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:ROUTINE applies to events and not people.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:39, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * And biographical articles on Wikipedia are supposed to be sourced. Creating an article on an ephemeral coach of a virtual community college without any sources at all save primary -- and then walking away from it for thirteen years -- is embarrassingly lazy editing.  What the heck, man?   Ravenswing      00:32, 9 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep Passes GNG based on sources provided by Cbl62, plus there's a lot more on Newspapers.com. Note that I've renamed this article to "Gene Yearwood" as that appears to be the subject's common name. Consider also that while The Apprentice School is a vocation school, its football team is an unusual case in that is has consistently played college teams over its history; see 1960 East Carolina Pirates football team, 1938 William & Mary Indians football team, 1943 Virginia Cavaliers football team, 1942 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team, etc. Apprentice was also a member of the Atlantic Central Football Conference from 2001 to 2010. Jweiss11 (talk) 08:24, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: Nope. Passing the GNG requires more than namedrops; it requires "significant coverage" about the subject in multiple reliable, independent sources.  Of the three new sources, the third is an obituary on a funeral home site, submitted by the family; not independent.  All the second says about the subject is that he's "leaving for an out of town job."  The first gives no information about the subject, other than that he "has his work cut out for him in his first year as head football coach at the Apprentice School."  These single sentence namedrops are the very definition of "trivial mentions" as set forth in WP:GNG.   Ravenswing      13:12, 9 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete GNG requires sources that provide in depth coverage of a person, not merely sourcing that says they are taking the lead of a football team. Also keep in mind if we soured local level newspaper coverage we could find mentions of appointment and leaving of a huge number of high school football coaches, but we have decided that the overwhelming majority of football coaches are not notable. Hometown newspaper coverage of local events is not a good way to pass GNG, and when it is basically just a name drop it is not enough to pass GNG at all. Wikipedia is not meant to be a database of everyone ever named in any paper that had circulation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:55, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NCOLLATH, WP:ANYBIO and WP:SIGCOV.   scope_creep Talk  11:45, 12 December 2021 (UTC)


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