Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mitch Rodrigue

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mitch Rodrigue

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Non-notable university assistant coach. The article reads more like a resume than an encyclopedia entry. - Mr X 02:30, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - This coach is an assistant coach at the highest level of college football. He can be considered as being at the pinnacle of his profession. Not everyone coaches in NFL or becomes a head coach. Many well-respected football coaches you hear constantly named on ESPN have stayed as assistants at the college level. You would have to remove many names from Wikipedia if you eliminated assistant college coaches. Some examples I found on a 5 minute search include - Craig Stump–Texas State, Chad Glasgow–Texas State, Don Shows–Northwestern Louisiana, Curtis Luper–Stephen F Austin, Mike Nesbitt-McNeese St, Ronnie Thompson-Lamar to name a few. As an assistant college coach, your responsibilities include helping to win games, developing players for the NFL and recruiting players to your University. The following links show he has developed players for NFL and was listed by Rivals.com as the No. 6 recruiter in nation. Rivals is considered one of the most respected sources of information concerning college football recruiting. Southern Mississippi bio, USA Jaguars bio], Louisiana-Lafayette bio. The information in the links could be added to make the article seem less resume like, but may lose some of its neutrality. User:Spatms (talk) 14:00, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Assistant coach being the keyword here. Fails WP:GNG. §FreeRangeFrog 06:02, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - there's an article in a local news source announcing his new post, but it hardly gives enough biographical info to warrant a Wikipedia article (it's an interview, basically). As per previous comment 'assistant' coach suggests he's not at the pinnacle of his career yet. Sionk (talk) 13:25, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:45, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:45, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Non-notable assistant college football coach. While WikiProject College football supports a presumption of notability for all head coaches in Division I, the project does not support a similar presumption in favor of assistant coaches. The applicable specific notability guideline is WP:NCOLLATH, which mentions four specific criteria: (1) won a national award; (2) established a major Division I record (not really applicable to assistants); (3) inducted into the hall of fame for their sport (for example, the College Football Hall of Fame); or (4) "gained national media attention as an individual, not just as a player for a notable team." The first three do not apply to the article subject, and the fourth apparently ties into the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG, and this subject does not have sufficient depth of coverage in multiple independent, reliable sources to satisfy the requirements of WP:GNG. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete but I would suggest merging the information into the team article.--Paul McDonald (talk) 00:43, 9 December 2012 (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.