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
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The result was redirect to
List of players who appeared in only one game in the NFL (1920–1929)#1923. Just a note that converting an article to a redirect does not "get rid" of an article. On the contrary, the article is preserved in the page history. If reliable sources are ever confirmed to exist, this article subject can be revisited. This is a much different situation than if editors here had advocated for deletion of this article where the content would be much more challenging to recover later. LizRead!Talk!02:34, 28 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Redirect per nom. We've gone over this extensively for over a year now; SIGCOV is required for sports articles, and simple participation has been deprecated. If
User:BeanieFan11 is unprepared to do the work to properly source the articles, he does not now get to unilaterally decide to defy consensus-based notability standards. Either put up or shut up.
Ravenswing 03:50, 21 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. I find it highly likely that this topic meets GNG with hard-to-access sources. Rate played in the NFL, was
team captain at Purdue (one of the top cfb teams in the country), and I'm almost certain he has a SIGCOV biography in the book The Badgers: Milwaukee's NFL Entry of 1922-1926. What makes it extremely difficult to find sources is the fact that newspapers of that period often discussed players just by their last name, and his last name is an extremely common word.
BeanieFan11 (
talk)
20:29, 22 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Wishful thinking is not good enough, nor are excuses to mask why reliable sources have not been proffered. You should be well aware of the provisions of
WP:V by now: speculation doesn't count.
Ravenswing 05:20, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Redirect until sources are found and added per SPORTBASIC. The assertion that significant coverage is likely to exist is insufficient to establish notability anywhere on enwiki, and that goes double for sports biographies which must actually include SIGCOV sourcing in the article. –
dlthewave☎04:26, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Ah, I see, so when we know SIGCOV exists we just don't have hours of time to search and $40 to spend we just say "oh well" and get rid of the article. Makes sense.
BeanieFan11 (
talk)
15:28, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Pardon me, do I have this correctly? You're actually raising as a source bolstering the subject's notability a book you have not seen? This absolutely is wishful thinking on your part; you don't "know" that there's SIGCOV at all. At this stage, how do you expect us -- or the closing admin -- to place any credit in any assertion you make?
Ravenswing 23:55, 25 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The guy played in just one game for the Badgers, why should we assume this book has significant coverage of him? Those types of books have biographies of all players, even ones who played a single game.
BeanieFan11 (
talk)
16:56, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
"Those types of books?" So you haven't seen it at all? Profiling all the players isn't the same as certainly having significant biographical coverage of the guy who took the field once. I'm confused why you think this project is based on guesswork rather than actual verifiability.
Reywas92Talk17:06, 23 November 2022 (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.
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 redirect to
List of players who appeared in only one game in the NFL (1920–1929)#1923. Just a note that converting an article to a redirect does not "get rid" of an article. On the contrary, the article is preserved in the page history. If reliable sources are ever confirmed to exist, this article subject can be revisited. This is a much different situation than if editors here had advocated for deletion of this article where the content would be much more challenging to recover later. LizRead!Talk!02:34, 28 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Redirect per nom. We've gone over this extensively for over a year now; SIGCOV is required for sports articles, and simple participation has been deprecated. If
User:BeanieFan11 is unprepared to do the work to properly source the articles, he does not now get to unilaterally decide to defy consensus-based notability standards. Either put up or shut up.
Ravenswing 03:50, 21 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. I find it highly likely that this topic meets GNG with hard-to-access sources. Rate played in the NFL, was
team captain at Purdue (one of the top cfb teams in the country), and I'm almost certain he has a SIGCOV biography in the book The Badgers: Milwaukee's NFL Entry of 1922-1926. What makes it extremely difficult to find sources is the fact that newspapers of that period often discussed players just by their last name, and his last name is an extremely common word.
BeanieFan11 (
talk)
20:29, 22 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Wishful thinking is not good enough, nor are excuses to mask why reliable sources have not been proffered. You should be well aware of the provisions of
WP:V by now: speculation doesn't count.
Ravenswing 05:20, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Redirect until sources are found and added per SPORTBASIC. The assertion that significant coverage is likely to exist is insufficient to establish notability anywhere on enwiki, and that goes double for sports biographies which must actually include SIGCOV sourcing in the article. –
dlthewave☎04:26, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Ah, I see, so when we know SIGCOV exists we just don't have hours of time to search and $40 to spend we just say "oh well" and get rid of the article. Makes sense.
BeanieFan11 (
talk)
15:28, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Pardon me, do I have this correctly? You're actually raising as a source bolstering the subject's notability a book you have not seen? This absolutely is wishful thinking on your part; you don't "know" that there's SIGCOV at all. At this stage, how do you expect us -- or the closing admin -- to place any credit in any assertion you make?
Ravenswing 23:55, 25 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The guy played in just one game for the Badgers, why should we assume this book has significant coverage of him? Those types of books have biographies of all players, even ones who played a single game.
BeanieFan11 (
talk)
16:56, 23 November 2022 (UTC)reply
"Those types of books?" So you haven't seen it at all? Profiling all the players isn't the same as certainly having significant biographical coverage of the guy who took the field once. I'm confused why you think this project is based on guesswork rather than actual verifiability.
Reywas92Talk17:06, 23 November 2022 (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
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