Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron King (American football)

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:06, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Aaron King (American football)

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Thoroughly non-notable American football player. His college career is of no particular interest (the college careers of long snappers almost never are), and he only ever played in a team in a United Football League incarnation, which is not fully professional. As a result, he fails WP:NGRIDIRON. The closest thing I can find to significant coverage is the Newsweek article, which only mentions him as an example of a player who took a nasty blow to the head. Hog Farm _Bacon 22:36, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 22:36, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 22:36, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 22:36, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete it is rare for a college long snapper/center to generate enough press for inclusion in this encyclopedia. I do not see the coverage to pass WP:GNG.--Paul McDonald (talk) 15:31, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete it is high time to stop the ridiculous charade of treating such clearly not notable people as notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:54, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't see any reason to believe this article was created in bad faith. Your comment calling the article creation a "ridiculous charade" is uncalled for, unproductive, and is not a reason to delete. I still believe the subject is not notable and the article should be deleted, but I see no evidence of prejudice against the article creator. Enthusiastic editors should be WP:BOLD and the community of editors that make up Wikipedia largely encourages that.--Paul McDonald (talk) 22:18, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - No, a low profile player who never plays in a pro-leguage should never be given an article. We really, really, really need to going to requiring all articles to go through the AfC process.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:48, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    - WP:AFC is a great tool, but it is not required for article creation. I suppose you could make a proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) to make it a policy or something.--Paul McDonald (talk) 13:17, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 13:30, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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