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 keep. Killiondude ( talk) 00:17, 21 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Lindell Wigginton

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Does not meet WP:NBASKETBALL CASSIOPEIA ( talk) 13:46, 13 January 2018 (UTC) reply

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• Keep - meets WP:GNG per articles like this and this and this. Rikster2 ( talk) 14:25, 13 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep per Rikster2. Passes GNG.-- TM 21:10, 13 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep meets GNG, plus competed for Canada in international play. ~ EDDY ^{( talk/ contribs)}~ 00:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete The articles only add up to routine coverage. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 01:21, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Comment No they are not, they are full stories centered around the subject. And if you don’t like those ones, try this and this and this. Johnpacklambert, you are quickly losing credibility in AfD discussions. Fully 98.4% of your votes are Delete/Merge/Redirect (see here) and many show a lack of WP:BEFORE - not fully checking to see if the subject meets a notability guideline, not looking for sources, etc. If you are going to !vote indiscriminately why should we pay attention? Rikster2 ( talk) 04:12, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep Clearly passes WP:GNG. I share other users' concerns about Johnpacklambert. He's already been sanctioned for creating spurious AFDs without doing WP:BEFORE, perhaps it's time to increase those sanctions. Smartyllama ( talk) 17:41, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Just because the cabal of keepers for articles on sportspeople gets outraged, does not mean that nominating one line articles is in any way a "spurious" nomination. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 02:58, 18 January 2018 (UTC) reply
    • I vote Delete more than I vote keep, smart guy. Rikster2 ( talk) 03:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep per Rikster2. Meets WP:GNG and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 ( talk) 12:08, 17 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep per WP:GNG. Rlendog ( talk) 02:33, 18 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep WP:GNG is satisfied with the sources listed above. To the Nominator, WP:GNG should be considered before looking at specific notability guidelines such as WP:NBASKETBALL. These sport-specific-guidelines are inclusionary, not exclusionary. Their existence allows us to avoid wasting time here at AfD debating whether someone is notable per WP:GNG because they are presumed to be obviously notable if, say, they participated in one NBA game. Nominating articles that obviously meet WP:GNG here without performing WP:BEFORE causes a number of editors to go through unnecessary work. In this AfD alone you can see the work performed by Baby, Rikster2, John Pack Lambert, EDDY , Rikster2, Smartyllama, Ejgreen77, Rlendog, and myself. All of us have probably gone through the BEFORE exercise, or at least some portion that you did. These sports specific guidelines are here to save us that time so we can be making productive improvements to the encyclopedia elsewhere. If an editor makes continual frivolous nominations, they begin to disrupt the entire process; some editors have been subjected to sanctions for doing so. Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia, and if you sincerely believe that a subject meets the valid reasons for deletion laid out in the deletion policy, please continue to bring them here! But take care to consider our limited resources by first conducting a sincere WP:BEFORE. Thanks! Jacona ( talk) 14:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC) reply

• Comment @ JaconaFrere:I had done the WP:BEFORE before nominated. If it is based on WP:GNG the article pass. I AfD based on WP:BASKETBALL. I know there are discussions on this inclusion/exclusion nobility topics and its disagreements. Since as you mentioned sport-specific-guidelines are exclusionary, not exclusionary then it should be kept. CASSIOPEIA^{( talk)} 15:01, 19 January 2018 (UTC) reply

• Request for a closing admin: As the nominator asks to keep the article, please close this one quickly. Thanks! Thanks, CASSIOPEIA for your prompt attention! It is greatly appreciated. Jacona ( talk) 15:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC) reply

@ JaconaFrere: Greetings and welcome, and sorry for the trouble. CASSIOPEIA^{( talk)} 15:08, 19 January 2018 (UTC) reply

• We can't close it early on nominator's request because Johnpacklambert has !voted delete. However, it's going to be closed tomorrow anyway. Smartyllama ( talk) 19:37, 19 January 2018 (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.