Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Duncan (baseball)

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The result was nomination withdrawn by original nominator. Non-admin close. Redfarmer (talk) 17:18, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Duncan (baseball)[edit]

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Not notable baseball player. Only played for one year and that was 100 years ago. Emptyviewers (talk) 21:34, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per WP:ATHLETE. Yes, he played for one year, in the National League 1899 season. It doesn't matter that it was 100 years ago. Mandsford 23:14, 16 October 2010 (UTC) Mandsford 23:13, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:ATHLETE#Baseball. As Mandsford said, time has absolutely no bearing on who is notable and who isn't. According to current consensus, if they play even one game for a Major League team, they are notable. Duncan did. He is notable. Redfarmer (talk) 09:49, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of baseball-related deletion discussions. -- Redfarmer (talk) 09:58, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of biographical-related deletion discussions. -- Redfarmer (talk) 10:24, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep. Per above comments. Suggest that the nom, a new editor, become more familiar with the process before nominating articles for deletion.--Epeefleche (talk) 11:06, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Satisfies WP:ATH. Subject played in Major League Baseball, the highest level of the sport. BRMo (talk) 13:13, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep. Notability is not temporary, not even if it's 100 years old. -Dewelar (talk) 15:35, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep - A year in one of the major leagues makes for notability per se. Carrite (talk) 16:25, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw Nomination Still feel it is a pointless article (who would actually look him up?) but it's obvious that I lost. Emptyviewers (talk) 16:46, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Definite Keep per notability guidelines above. A very frivolous nomination, as it's fairly clear that Emptyviewers only nominated this article for deletion to harass the creator of the article (see discussion on User talk:PM800). Bds69 (talk) 16:49, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

THAT IS NOT TRUE I did not nominate because of past issues with PM800. I did find it because of that, but I nominated based on the fact that nobody is going to look it up. You are not WP:AGF. I wasn't the first person to try to delete it by the way. A random IP address deleted the first one. I just feel it's stupid having an article about somebody like that, but if you look above you'll see that I GAVE UP. Emptyviewers (talk) 17:09, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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