Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Adams (baseball)


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The result was   keep. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

William Adams (baseball)

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Possibly non-notable minor league manager. He did manage two teams to league championships, which may be notable enough. However, I leave that up to you to decide. Alex (talk) 07:05, 27 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions.  —Alex (talk) 07:25, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions.  —Alex (talk) 07:31, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Only sources cited are statistics sites; doesn't meet notability criterion for minor league players/managers in WP:BASE/N.  (Note that Wikipedia is not a directory.)  BRMo (talk) 19:52, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment There are two sources for this article. Alex (talk) 20:01, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, and neither source covers the subject in substantial depth (per WP:BIO). Both sources are compilations of statistics. BRMo (talk) 20:24, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Timotheus Canens (talk) 02:38, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep His league championships make him notable in my opinion. - Spanneraol (talk) 21:08, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. The problem is with lack of references in the article, but I believe we can assume given his history that the sources exist and the solution is to find them, not delete the article. I'll bet that the Times-Picayune morgue--if it survived the flood--would be able to come through. There doesn't seem to be much online--I found only this, which is probably reliable but not substantive. Matchups 03:22, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Weak keep - definitely needs more RS to be added. However, I think that his accomplishments are enough to merit inclusion, if only barely.  Needs to be expanded/verified more.   Cocytus   [»talk«]  16:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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