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Subject does not meet
WP:GNG nor
WP:ATHLETE policies. All references in regards to the subject fall under
WP:ROUTINE coverage for sports. The article written could be about any football player at any major FBS school. Subject has not been successful in a major competition nor won a significant honor. Moreover being related to other notable people (
WP:BIORELATED) does not imply notability
BarkeepChat21:38, 6 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep, and probably speedily. First off, there are 25+ reliable sources used as refs and many of them are
WP:SIGCOV so
WP:GNG is clearly met. This is not "routine" coverage that "any football player at any major FBS school" could garner. There are several sources that go in depth in regards to McCaffrey as "the future" of Nebraska football and both his recruitment and transfer received national coverage. Finally,
WP:BIORELATED doesn't apply because these are not passing mentions and there is no assumption that the subject is notable simply because he has famous relatives (ie the notability is conferred). McCaffrey is the focus of most of the articles in relation to his family, and not mentioned in passing. If the sources were solely along the lines of
this one entitled "Christian McCaffrey Calls Out Nebraska HC Scott Frost After Brother Luke's Transfer", then BIORELATED or
WP:NOTINHERITED would be applicable but this is not the case.
GPL93 (
talk)
21:43, 6 October 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.
Subject does not meet
WP:GNG nor
WP:ATHLETE policies. All references in regards to the subject fall under
WP:ROUTINE coverage for sports. The article written could be about any football player at any major FBS school. Subject has not been successful in a major competition nor won a significant honor. Moreover being related to other notable people (
WP:BIORELATED) does not imply notability
BarkeepChat21:38, 6 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep, and probably speedily. First off, there are 25+ reliable sources used as refs and many of them are
WP:SIGCOV so
WP:GNG is clearly met. This is not "routine" coverage that "any football player at any major FBS school" could garner. There are several sources that go in depth in regards to McCaffrey as "the future" of Nebraska football and both his recruitment and transfer received national coverage. Finally,
WP:BIORELATED doesn't apply because these are not passing mentions and there is no assumption that the subject is notable simply because he has famous relatives (ie the notability is conferred). McCaffrey is the focus of most of the articles in relation to his family, and not mentioned in passing. If the sources were solely along the lines of
this one entitled "Christian McCaffrey Calls Out Nebraska HC Scott Frost After Brother Luke's Transfer", then BIORELATED or
WP:NOTINHERITED would be applicable but this is not the case.
GPL93 (
talk)
21:43, 6 October 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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