Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hayley Tait

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The result was delete. $Salvio$ ^{Let's talk about it!} 20:47, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hayley Tait[edit]

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Notability concerns for this athlete entering college.

The claim of being the first female from the Northwest Territories to play for a U Sports Basketball team is almost trivial, and contradicted by one of the sources. Coverage is local and WP:MILL for high-school athletes entering college sports programs in North America. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:11, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 17:22, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:46, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:46, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:47, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No real claims of notability, not a significant high school athlete either to merit a page, just your average run of the mill college athlete. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 19:57, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete most collegiate basketball players are not notable. Even fewer are notable before they even play.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:42, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Being the first woman from the NWT to play varsity basketball at the Canadian university level is not, in and of itself, an inclusion freebie in the absence of any actual awards or distinctions that would get her past WP:ATHLETE the normal way — "first woman, LGBT, person of colour, person from this particular place as opposed to that one, etc., ever to do this otherwise not inherently notable thing" is not an instant free pass to greater notability than everybody else who's doing that same non-notable thing. And, for that matter, one of the sources here states that she's one of the first varsity athletes from the NWT, not that she's the trailblazing first-ever — which is even less of a valid notability claim. But the sourcing, which consists of one article in the local newspaper of where her university is, one article in the local CBC North bureau covering her hometown (which is not the same thing as the CBC's national news division) and an internet radio stream which counts for all of exactly nothing toward ever establishing the notability of anybody, is not strong enough to pass WP:GNG. People do not automatically get into Wikipedia just because they've gotten a bit of "local girl does stuff" human interest coverage in their own local media, but nothing here demonstrates a reason why she could be considered a notable athlete. Creator's username also suggests a possible conflict of interest. Bearcat (talk) 21:05, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
delete Likely COI, but the reason to delete is a failure to meet either the GNG or WP:NHOOPS. I think Bearcat's explanation sums it up nicely.Sandals1 (talk) 21:52, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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