Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Courtland Pollard

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The result was redirect to List of Alderson Broaddus Battlers head football coaches. Daniel (talk) 04:17, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Courtland Pollard[edit]

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No significant coverage about coach of non-notable team, fails WP:NCOLLATH. Reywas92^Talk 05:38, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 05:38, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. ^{Engr. Smitty Werben} 05:46, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. ^{Engr. Smitty Werben} 05:46, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ Redirect to List of Alderson Broaddus Battlers head football coaches. Not finding SIGCOV. (Finding more about his wife, who was politically active, than about him.) Even obituaries are just very short blurbs. E.g., [1], [2]. Will reconsider if SIGCOV is presented. Cbl62 (talk) 06:56, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, no significant coverage and there seems little prospect of expanding the article. JonnyDKeen (talk) 12:59, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, Reywas92, I believe you are nominating these articles way too fast, similar to what happened a decade ago at WP:CFBWEST (which I read last week and hoped would never happen again). I see you nominated T. G. Yearwood at 05:23 ([3]), Frank Masters at 05:25 ([4]), J. E. Bradshaw seconds later! ([5]), Randolph Howard at 05:32 ([6]), Fred Chenoweth at 05:33 ([7]), Roman Krawchuck at 05:34 ([8]), Bill Latto at 05:37 ([9]), and Courtland Pollard at 05:38 ([10]). That is not enough time to do an adequate BEFORE search and I find this behavior very disruptive. It also seems as if you specifically targeting User:Paulmcdonald's articles, as 15 out of 17 you nominated in the past three days are all his creations. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:24, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- This article was created 18:32, February 16, 2012‎, Bill Latto seconds later at 18:33, Roman Krawchuck at 18:34, Frank Chenowith at 18:35, and Randolph Howard at 18:17. Bradshaw, Masters, and Yearwood were within minutes of each other on December 30, 2008‎, along with 23 more that day (nominations pending). I believe PaulMcdonald was making these articles way too fast. This is not enough time to adequately create articles with significant sources, and I find this behavior very disruptive. Indeed, I am nominating related articles that similarly lack notability and coverage. Why is there a double standard that someone can make dozens of low quality articles at once but I can't nominate them together? Am I expected to wait for one to finish before nominating the next? There are hundreds more of these made under the mistaken belief that all coaches are automatically notable, and you shouldn't be shifting the WP:BURDEN to show notability onto me. Reywas92^Talk 16:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Reywas92: while I agree the articles should not have been created in that way, just because Paulmcdonald may have done something disruptive doesn't mean you have to. What I am saying is you should at least do some kind of BEFORE search prior to nominating these articles for deletion, rather than mass nominate them within seconds/minutes of each other, which is not enough time to determine whether or not they are notable. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    - But just as I presume these were written in editspace together before being saved together to be consistent, it's easier to do spot searches together and then click the AFDs than to switch between modes one at a time. Probably not as thorough as you'd like, but yes there was a search on newspapers.com for these for anything obvious. Reywas92^Talk 17:11, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete:~~ Redirect to List of Alderson Broaddus Battlers head football coaches. I'm unmoved by the speed in which these were AfDed, and I question what precisely anyone finds "disruptive" about it ... except in so far that some people might actually have to get off their duffs and come up with the proper sourcing that should've been included when the articles were created, a decade or more ago. For this article, there are only casual mentions and WP:NOTMEMORIAL refs for a fellow who coached a single season at a tiny college a century ago, and absolutely nothing that meets WP:SIGCOV. Ravenswing 18:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Alderson Broaddus Battlers head football coaches. Not finding enough SIGCOV in my search. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:39, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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