Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nate Hairston

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 04:39, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nate Hairston[edit]

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Fails WP:ANYBIO, or any lesser standard that applies. John from Idegon (talk) 10:25, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Multiple mentions in this and this refs. KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 15:06, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Wouldn't that be WP:1E? John from Idegon (talk) 15:30, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@John from Idegon: Nope, it is clearly notable per WP:NGRIDIRON. KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 15:56, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@KGirlTrucker81:: How's that? He was drafted yesterday. Obviously he has not yet played in a game. Perhaps you've conflated NGRIDIRON with another athletic notability guideline (eg basketball) where being drafted early confers notability? John from Idegon (talk) 16:57, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@John from Idegon: Yes, whatever the subject has coverage in reliable sources regardless of sports drafts. KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 17:49, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:28, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Not only was he just drafted, but he also has coverage:[1][2][3][4][5][6]--Yankees10 17:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep passes the notability guideline. Lepricavark (talk) 18:36, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Where in any of that is sourcing to write a biography of this fella? There is no information whatsoever on his life, just his career, which really hasn't even started. If you extended this logic to non athletes, everyone that ever ran for political office, got promoted, graduated from high school or college, patented anything, got arrested....the list goes on, would be notable. The reason the sports notability guidelines were created was to give us a shorthand for when we could assume enough coverage existed to write a reasonable biography. All of the sources on the article and all of the sources cited here just talk about segments of his amateur career or him being drafted. Believe it or not, one has a life before and after football. But whatever.....I'll never understand the fascination with people who toss spheroids for a living. You can consider this Withdrawn. Wikipedia has ceased to be an attempt to gather the sum total of human knowledge and become a repository for everyone's favorite triviality. John from Idegon (talk) 20:42, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per all above. We go through this every year, after every NFL draft. I've decided that, moving forward, I'm going to consider this a rite of passage, a sign that spring is finally here! Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Everything is certified to be safe, and the article should have no problem as of up to this date. Just waiting for admin action. Slasher405 (talk) 00:47, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The sources about him establish notability. WP:NCOLLATH would be more relevant here and he passes the criteria. Alansohn (talk) 02:45, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Clearly notable under any of the relevant criteria. Smartyllama (talk) 18:20, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Passes WP:GNG per sources cited by Yankees10. Cbl62 (talk) 19:57, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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