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Fails
WP:NGRIDIRON and has not received coverage outside of transaction or game recaps. Clearly either an
WP:AUTOBIO or was created by family/friends
GPL93 (
talk) 22:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment. There appears to be a lot of coverage. Here's an example: "
Temple's Star Receiver: Jim Callahan the Living End", 11/1/67.
As someone who grew up reading the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News sports pages, I'd say that this is pretty routine coverage for a better player on a Temple football team. Best,
GPL93 (
talk) 03:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply
First of all, a three-column feature story in a major metropolitan newspaper is notWP:ROUTINE coverage. Second, Callahan was not just a "better player" on a Temple team: he shattered Temple's all-time records for scoring (game, season, and career) and receiving yards (season and career).
Cbl62 (
talk) 08:54, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Here is another piece defining the three years from 1967 to 1969 as the "Waller-Callahan Era" at Temple. Also inducted into both the Temple and Mid-Atlantic Conference Halls of Fame. See
here and
here.
Cbl62 (
talk) 09:24, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep: As per above, feature articles are WP:NOTROUTINE and show passing WP:GNG --
Whiteguru (
talk) 09:39, 30 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep Meets GNG with sources in article. The article has been cleaned up since the AfD. Notable player who set several Temple records. ~EDDY(
talk/
contribs)~ 14:05, 30 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. Meets
WP:GNG and
WP:BASIC, per the sourcing and improvements to the article that have been made since this AfD was opened.
Ejgreen77 (
talk) 04:20, 1 September 2020 (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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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.
Fails
WP:NGRIDIRON and has not received coverage outside of transaction or game recaps. Clearly either an
WP:AUTOBIO or was created by family/friends
GPL93 (
talk) 22:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment. There appears to be a lot of coverage. Here's an example: "
Temple's Star Receiver: Jim Callahan the Living End", 11/1/67.
As someone who grew up reading the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News sports pages, I'd say that this is pretty routine coverage for a better player on a Temple football team. Best,
GPL93 (
talk) 03:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply
First of all, a three-column feature story in a major metropolitan newspaper is notWP:ROUTINE coverage. Second, Callahan was not just a "better player" on a Temple team: he shattered Temple's all-time records for scoring (game, season, and career) and receiving yards (season and career).
Cbl62 (
talk) 08:54, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Here is another piece defining the three years from 1967 to 1969 as the "Waller-Callahan Era" at Temple. Also inducted into both the Temple and Mid-Atlantic Conference Halls of Fame. See
here and
here.
Cbl62 (
talk) 09:24, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep: As per above, feature articles are WP:NOTROUTINE and show passing WP:GNG --
Whiteguru (
talk) 09:39, 30 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep Meets GNG with sources in article. The article has been cleaned up since the AfD. Notable player who set several Temple records. ~EDDY(
talk/
contribs)~ 14:05, 30 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. Meets
WP:GNG and
WP:BASIC, per the sourcing and improvements to the article that have been made since this AfD was opened.
Ejgreen77 (
talk) 04:20, 1 September 2020 (UTC)reply
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