Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josh Bloxham

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep - the article has undergone a significant improvement during the discussion. --jonny-m t 16:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Josh Bloxham

~~Possibly non-notable basketball player. Was tagged for WP:CSD#A7 speedy deletion, but he has too much press for me to be comfortable with that. David Eppstein (talk) 05:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC)~~ Keep. There's enough there for me now, and I'm happy to have my intuition not to speedy this one proved right. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:12, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not for me. :) Delete as non-notable. All of the press seems to be about this young man's scoring in Friday night basketball games. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete. Non-notable. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 06:17, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete The "press" are ~~high school~~ sports results. This is your typical "I made an article about myself (or a buddy)" that clutters up the new page patrol every minute of every day. DarkAudit (talk) 14:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete; snow. 9Nak (talk) 15:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't think this should be speedied until someone familiar with New Zealand basketball can chime in. This guy has a profile at AustraliaBasket.com (part of the Eurobasket family) and appears to play for the Nelson Giants of New Zealand's National Basketball League. Unfortunately, I know very little about the the New Zealand NBL, so I can't say if that confers any notability... Zagalejo^^^ 18:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If he is notable, then it's best to blow up this article and start over. The only thing salvageable here is the subject's name. Everything else is crap. DarkAudit (talk) 18:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and start over Per the Nelson Giants home page, this guy does play for the team. That would pass WP:ATHLETE. This article, though, is absolute garbage. DarkAudit (talk) 18:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. If he's really notable someone will find more convincing sources and evidence of notability and recreate the article. If not I suspect it wouldn't in the grand scheme of things make much of a difference. Iamblessed (talk) 17:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. As has already been said he passes WP:BIO by playing at the top level, and it's perfectly possible to rewrite an article without deleting it first - in fact I've just done so. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:21, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and kudos Nice save by Mr. Bridger. DarkAudit (talk) 22:05, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Nice job. I can see you are a iclusionist, Bridger. You just removed one of my proposed deletions. Mm 40 _{Your Hancock Please} —Preceding comment was added at 21:40, 29 March 2008 (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.