Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spencer Boyd (Football Player)

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The result was delete. -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:18, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Spencer Boyd (Football Player)[edit]

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College athlete who appears to have played one year of college football in 2011 and got a small bit of media coverage from ESPN when he transferred, but this appears to be more about it being the first to leave under the coach than anything about him personally. Fails WP:NCOLLATH and I couldn't find any other sources that would put him past WP:GNG. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:31, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. As above, fails general notability for now. Deathlibrarian (talk) 10:21, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I don't have time to study the articles tonight, but there does seem to be some significant coverage of the guy in major media outlets: (1) ESPN, (2) ESPN again, (3) Chicago Tribune, (4) NBC Sports, (5) Tampa Bay Times. Cbl62 (talk) 03:28, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

To me, this is WP:BLP1E. Most of the coverage surrounds him transferring to ND, and I don't think sports coverage of a college athlete transferring schools confers notability on him. The Chicago Tribune article was a sports blog which focuses specifically on Notre Dame football, so announcing that the #26 cornerback recruit signed with them to me is pretty WP:ROUTINE coverage. If the only two things a college athlete gets substantial coverage for are signing with a team and transferring off of that team, I don't think that meets the standards of our policies. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:49, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

response "one event" requires it to be "one event" and this is clearly at least two events: when he came to Notre Dame, and when he left Notre Dame. Arguments could be made for even more. While the article as written looks really lame, that's an editing issue and not a deletion issue. I can find no policy violation and it seems to me that the subject passes WP:GNG. Therefore, here we are at Keep--Paul McDonald (talk) 15:48, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete lacks the level of coverage to establish notability as a football player.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:30, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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