Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The next Michael Jordan


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 15:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

The next Michael Jordan
Delete - This article has no references/sources, is very editorially conceived, and has scant encyclopedic value. That's my vote. Downwards 01:36, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unencyclopedic generic phrase. Every context of human culture and activity has their heroes and stars, and comparing someone new to those exalted figures as "the next X" is an incredibly commonplace and mundane statement in English.  There is no indication that it is a significant and distinct phrase.  Please note that the author also created "Poor man's Michael Jordan", which is more of the same.  Postdlf 03:35, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Keppa 04:33, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete agree. Bssc81 13:30, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per above. --Strothra 20:01, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Not a speedy Jaranda wat's sup 20:16, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete I was planning to AFD this myself, pure POV Jaranda wat's sup 20:16, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Ardenn 21:35, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, though not speedily. I should say that I do imagine a possible NPOV incarnation of the page, one in which the term is described and in which the list of players to whom it has been ascribed is fully sourced (as, for example, List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Democratic Party or People speculated to have been autistic), where then the list functions not to reveal our subjective preferences but to aggregate the expressed subjective preferences of those whom we'd deem notable (e.g., Michael Wilbon).  For me, though, such an article would nevertheless be unencyclopedic, consistent with Postdlf's excellent elucidation above.  Joe 22:30, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom  Funky Monkey    (talk)   01:18, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete unencylcopedic per se M1ss1ontomars2k4 04:19, 26 April 2006 (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.