Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mitch Lomax
- 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 Delete. Hut 8.5 19:11, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mitch Lomax[edit]
The subject (a young child) doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability criteria. The only argument for subject's notability is that he pitched in the Little League World Series (an international baseball tournament of teams for children ages 11 through 13). Although the tournament generates considerable media coverage, coverage of him and other players in the tournament is incidental to the overall reporting on the games and should be classified as "trivial" according to WP:BIO. Because the subject's only claim to notability is one event that already is covered in its own article (Results of the 2007 Little League World Series), this is the type of article that is discouraged by WP:BIO1E. Furthermore, several hundred children participate in the Little League World Series each year. Permitting articles on each of them is not a direction that Wikipedia should allow given the concerns about WP:BLP. BRMo (talk) 02:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: Per nom. A kid that happens to be on a successful Little League team does not inherit that team's notability. There are no articles on the teams - why would there be an article for a particular member of the team? —Wknight94 (talk) 02:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletions. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:53, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: Little Leaguers don't need articles. That would open a huge can of worms. If they get to the majors, then they'll get articles. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 04:03, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Non-notable kid. Yes he competed in a tournament, but that's about it. TJ Spyke 04:34, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Absolutely no way. Under 19 cricketers who represent their countries in youth test matches aren't held to be notable unless they've played first class cricket so little league players of 12 can't possibly be notable in their own right. Nick mallory (talk) 06:21, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment, I don't know if this matters or not; but the articles was the only edit made by it's creater (and that was back on December 8). TJ Spyke 07:15, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete falls a long way short of notability. Nuttah (talk) 09:14, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Nn baseball player, fails WP:BIO. STORMTRACKER 94 13:05, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak delete, based solely on lack of significant coverage. The Lake Oswego paper is a small town paper -- this type of paper (I subscribe to two and read their sports sections every day) will give significant coverage to every member of any Little League team, because the parents will buy lots of papers. The mlb.com article is only a passing mention. Other sources I've found online only mention him in relation to the new pitch count rules, which affected a number of pitchers. If someone can come up with significant coverage, I'll happily changed to keep.--Fabrictramp
(talk) 14:23, 22 December 2007 (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.