Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Akron Hammer


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. LOL's arguments against a redirect are compelling. If NoseNuggets wishes to add to the LeBron James article what seems to me a piece of trivia, s/he should propose it on the article talk page. JohnCD (talk) 19:06, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

The Akron Hammer

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Seems to be made up very recently. Google search comes up with this significant hit and not much else. PROD was contested. Favonian (talk) 09:20, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to LeBron James, Delete there is no need for a separate page for every nickname someone has. J04n(talk page) 19:10, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * changed !vote per point made by LOL J04n(talk page) 02:10, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Redirect, as stated above. Could have got away with redirecting without the AfD, I think. Maybe a very slight partial merge to say a sentence or two about the name. Or not, Lord Spongefrog,  (I am the Czar of all Russias!)  21:21, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: I did think of that possibility; my only concern being that this nickname has been made up for the occasion and even including it as a redirect would be "canonizing" it. But what the heck, let the author have his 10 minutes of fame.  Favonian (talk) 21:35, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's not a notable nickname.  A SportsNation host called him that and a bunch of internet users have since been trying to "make it official" via blogs, forum posts, petitions, Wikipedia edits, etc.  There aren't any reliable sources to support it, and Wikipedia is not a means of promotion or crystal ball. — LOL T/C 23:26, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per LOL - unnotable nickname made up on a day— Chris! c / t 23:57, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect per above; redirects are cheap, and if this term is seeing use on ESPN and in the media, it becomes a plausible search term. Unlikely in the extreme, though, that this term gains its own notability independent of the subject. UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 17:49, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: this term isn't seeing use on ESPN and in the media; afaik it's only been used by the host of a talk show that airs on a channel owned by ESPN, so there aren't any reliable third-party sources for this. — LOL T/C 01:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Re-direct to Lebron James.--Yankees10 21:31, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Seconded, but merge the information into the LeBron James article with the following information:
 * "James was given the nickname of "The Akron Hammer" by ESPN SportsNation co-host Michele Beadle, but the moniker has failed to catch on." NoseNuggets (talk) 4:03 PM US EST Nov 13 2009
 * Comment: Are there any reliable third-party sources to support that piece of trivia? — LOL T/C 21:08, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The addition of any of the information to LeBron James should be discussed at Talk:LeBron James. J04n(talk page) 23:30, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. LOL's point is well taken. There is no content worth merging here, and the suggestion made above by NoseNuggets should not be followed up on: WP is not a repository for trivial information. (If someone gives him that nickname, and if it doesn't catch on, then it's trivial.) Drmies (talk) 03:52, 14 November 2009 (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.