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Far
WP:TOOSOON. Fails
WP:GRIDIRON currently as they haven't played in regular or post season game and only just got drafted, which is obviously subject to a lot of change.
Praxidicae (
talk) 17:44, 28 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete for now, per
WP:NGRIDIRON. No notability from his college career or evidence of playing in the AAF. Obviously, the article could be recreated if he makes an NFL (or CFL) roster and plays in a regular-season game. —C.Fred (
talk) 18:18, 28 April 2019 (UTC)reply
The Daily Progress is a member of the Virginia Press Association. I've never heard the term "hyperlocal" -- but MVP for the Belk Bowl does speak to
WP:Impact and it was a nationally-covered post-season bowl game. So that wouldn't be "local" at all.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 02:21, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete the articles mentioned are either game coverage at the amateur level or local coverage not satisfying
WP:NCOLLATH, I think he will probably become notable soon though but the season isn't for another few months I think?
SportingFlyerT·C 17:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
CommentWP:NCOLLATH is inclusive and not exclusive, the sources provided and others not in the article surpass
WP:GNG. There is more than one path to notability.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 20:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
As I've noted many times before, games coverage typically does not count towards
WP:GNG in any sport.
SportingFlyerT·C 21:35, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Please do not confuse feature articles with basic sports stats and box scores or transactional data. Significant coverage such as feature articles about the athletes (and for that matter games) do apply toward notability.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 22:26, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I'm not. The wtkr.com article is about a game, not a feature article on the player. The two other articles are from the same publication, which is also local to the area the player plays in.
SportingFlyerT·C 04:34, 30 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I believe you have. The article titled "Record-setting day for Olamide Zaccheaus propels Virginia to win over Ohio" actually mentions the subject in the title. Further, there is nothing in
WP:GNG that disqualifies local coverage (plus having a circulation over 20,000 puts
The Daily Progress outside the range of a tiny little "local" paper). There are enough other such articles to build a more thorough article over time just from the time period before this latest NFL draft. That is way more than enough to meet the standard in
WP:GNG of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". And the subject wouldn't "lose" notability just for not making the cut of the NFL draft.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 12:28, 30 April 2019 (UTC)reply
The article titled "Record-setting day for Olamide Zaccheaus" is four paragraphs long and mentions him only once outside of the headline. Hardly
WP:SIGCOV. There's nothing wrong with local coverage per se, but we do tend to delete sports figures who only have local notability. Not to make an other stuff exists argument, but
here is a deletion discussion I was on the wrong end of due to the delete !voters only mentioning the local coverage of the player, and unlike Zaccheaus that player had multiple feature articles written on him.
SportingFlyerT·C 07:54, 4 May 2019 (UTC)reply
WP:SIGCOV: "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material. -- the references in the article do indeed combine to meet that standard. There is no original research here, the content of the article was garnered from the sources. The standard is met.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 14:05, 4 May 2019 (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.
Far
WP:TOOSOON. Fails
WP:GRIDIRON currently as they haven't played in regular or post season game and only just got drafted, which is obviously subject to a lot of change.
Praxidicae (
talk) 17:44, 28 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete for now, per
WP:NGRIDIRON. No notability from his college career or evidence of playing in the AAF. Obviously, the article could be recreated if he makes an NFL (or CFL) roster and plays in a regular-season game. —C.Fred (
talk) 18:18, 28 April 2019 (UTC)reply
The Daily Progress is a member of the Virginia Press Association. I've never heard the term "hyperlocal" -- but MVP for the Belk Bowl does speak to
WP:Impact and it was a nationally-covered post-season bowl game. So that wouldn't be "local" at all.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 02:21, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete the articles mentioned are either game coverage at the amateur level or local coverage not satisfying
WP:NCOLLATH, I think he will probably become notable soon though but the season isn't for another few months I think?
SportingFlyerT·C 17:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
CommentWP:NCOLLATH is inclusive and not exclusive, the sources provided and others not in the article surpass
WP:GNG. There is more than one path to notability.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 20:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
As I've noted many times before, games coverage typically does not count towards
WP:GNG in any sport.
SportingFlyerT·C 21:35, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Please do not confuse feature articles with basic sports stats and box scores or transactional data. Significant coverage such as feature articles about the athletes (and for that matter games) do apply toward notability.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 22:26, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I'm not. The wtkr.com article is about a game, not a feature article on the player. The two other articles are from the same publication, which is also local to the area the player plays in.
SportingFlyerT·C 04:34, 30 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I believe you have. The article titled "Record-setting day for Olamide Zaccheaus propels Virginia to win over Ohio" actually mentions the subject in the title. Further, there is nothing in
WP:GNG that disqualifies local coverage (plus having a circulation over 20,000 puts
The Daily Progress outside the range of a tiny little "local" paper). There are enough other such articles to build a more thorough article over time just from the time period before this latest NFL draft. That is way more than enough to meet the standard in
WP:GNG of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". And the subject wouldn't "lose" notability just for not making the cut of the NFL draft.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 12:28, 30 April 2019 (UTC)reply
The article titled "Record-setting day for Olamide Zaccheaus" is four paragraphs long and mentions him only once outside of the headline. Hardly
WP:SIGCOV. There's nothing wrong with local coverage per se, but we do tend to delete sports figures who only have local notability. Not to make an other stuff exists argument, but
here is a deletion discussion I was on the wrong end of due to the delete !voters only mentioning the local coverage of the player, and unlike Zaccheaus that player had multiple feature articles written on him.
SportingFlyerT·C 07:54, 4 May 2019 (UTC)reply
WP:SIGCOV: "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material. -- the references in the article do indeed combine to meet that standard. There is no original research here, the content of the article was garnered from the sources. The standard is met.--
Paul McDonald (
talk) 14:05, 4 May 2019 (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.