Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Damon Sublett

The subject of this article meets all Wikipedia criteria for notability:

WP:ATHLETE: " Competitors who have competed in a fully professional league, or a competition of equivalent standing in a non-league sport such as swimming, golf or tennis." WP:ATHLETE: "A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject."

Any editors proposing deletion need to consult official Wikipedia guidelines on notability, rather than the user-created "guidelines" in BASEBALL (which does not include Minor League Baseball players, and thus does not even apply to the subject of this article). Major League Baseball players are one subset of professional athletes, but Wikipedia guidelines explicitly allow articles on professional athletes who are not in that limited subset.

The subject of this article has played for two professional baseball teams, has won numerous awards in his field, and has been covered in multiple secondary sources, including published newspaper articles, magazine profiles, Web sites, blogs, and sports almanacs (as well as three published baseball cards within the past year), and certainly meets all criteria for articles on professional athletes. If anyone thinks that this article does not meet Wikipedia criteria for notability, feel free to make your case here on this talk page. PLSublett (talk) 09:12, 19 June 2008 (UTC)