Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larry Archambault

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The result was keep (non-admin closure). ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 00:47, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Larry Archambault[edit]

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Non-notable semi-pro ice hockey player. While he did play enough games to pass WP:ATHLETE and WP:HOCKEY/PPF, there is hardly any information on him, so he fails WP:GNG as well as being an unreferenced BLP. Kaiser matias (talk) 22:07, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ice hockey-related deletion discussions. —DJSasso (talk) 22:39, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Not a semi-pro player as he played in the 2nd highest league in his era which was fully professional. Sources are likely to exist for him, being a pre-internet era player it means looking through news paper archives. WP:ATHLETE exists specifically to protect these sorts of players that will require more than just a google search to find information. -DJSasso (talk) 22:37, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:ATH presumes a player who's played pro has the coverage to meet WP:RS and WP:V. Sometimes that is not reality. News archives reveal a lot of trivial coverage, but nothing in depth. Nothing to indicate that we can write anything beyond what his hockeydb.com bio says: "He played for team x, y and z". Reso lute 04:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: According to WP:ATHLETE, a player who plays so much as one game in the current thirty-team NHL qualifies for an article on that basis alone. Archambault played 211 games in the second highest quality league back when the NHL had six teams. He not only played in a "fully professional" league, as WP:ATHLETE requires, he explicitly fulfills the criteria of WP:HOCKEY/PPF#NOTE, which holds that someone who "[p]layed at least 100 games in a fully professional minor league such as the American Hockey League, the International Hockey League, the ECHL, the Mestis, the HockeyAllsvenskan or other such league" merits an article. There is nothing "semi" about Archambeault's professionalism. Ravenswing 07:14, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Agree with Ravenswing. ʘ alaney2k ʘ (talk) 15:12, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep. Per DJSasso and Ravenswing. Patken4 (talk) 20:35, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - that is what per se notability means. Bearian (talk) 20:50, 8 July 2010 (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.