Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Jenkins (baseball)

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 04:43, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Jenkins (baseball)

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Hear me out on this one. According to WP:BASE/N, "Minor league players, managers, coaches, executives, and umpires are not assumed to be inherently notable. To establish that one of these is notable, the article must cite published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject… Although statistics sites may be reliable sources, they are not sufficient by themselves to establish notability." The only source provided for Jenkins is Baseball Reference Minors, which covers every minor league baseball player, including those who are not deserving of an article. As a minor league baseball player, he wasn’t very notable—he collected 950 hits over nine years in the minors, hitting .288. He did not reach any milestones (200 home runs, 2,000 hits, et cetera).

Though he led a team to a championship as a manager, it was a low minor league team in one of the many semi-notable leagues that existed at the time, so just how much bearing said championship has on his notability is up for debate. In addition, some of his managerial accomplishments cannot be fully attributed to him—in the article, it is stated that there is confusion as to who managed some teams—it is unknown whether it was Dan Jenkins or Joe Jenkins.

Upon further review of the established notability guidelines set forth by Wikipedia and its members, I do not believe this article to meet the guidelines in place. Though I am the original author of this article, I am nominating this article because I not no longer like it (I am quite proud of all my articles)—I am nominating it because it is my belief that Dan Jenkins is not now, nor was he ever, Wikipedia worthy. I wrote this article at a time when I was not well-versed in the notability guidelines for minor league managers.

As an aside, due to the recent “keeps” that have taken place, one might suggest bringing back the article for James Adlam—whom I nominated perhaps a year ago—if possible. He seems more notable than some of the managers who have been kept, as he also led a team to a championship and multiple teams to the postseason, managing for over a decade. As a batter, he collected over 1,000 minor league hits. Alex (talk) 22:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:12, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:13, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, average minor leaguers simply can't be notable if they don't do something to get themselves notable in some other way. I don't see any evidence to say that this guy was an exceptional minor leaguer or that he passes the general guideline in some other way. Nyttend (talk) 23:33, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- You're not addressing the fact that he was a manager. Ma^t_chups 03:33, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Unless the player did astronomically well, I don't see why any minor leaguer would have a wikipedia page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JeremyMcClean (talk • contribs) 23:51, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.