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A US national player and member of the Olympic team, which are no small accomplishments.
Obit mentions him as being a well-recognized name in STL and the St. Louis Sports Hall of fame
calls him a "local legend."
Inducted into the STL Soccer HOF. In-depth story
here from USSoccer.com, though I'm not sure that'd count as independent. A SIGCOV story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatchhere (
p2).
Plenty of mentions in Newspapers.com (e.g.
123). This feels like someone who should be kept.
BeanieFan11 (
talk) 15:50, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Completely agree this does feel like an article which should be kept based on the public information we have available, even though football wasn't well covered in the USA at the time (St Louis was actually one of the exceptions.) I can't access any of the newspaper links, though.
SportingFlyerT·C 19:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep per
WP:BASIC, BeanieFan has shown there is enough to pass the basic criteria, which also makes me feel the nominator hasn't bothered doing a
WP:BEFORE. :/
Govvy (
talk) 21:37, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
In fairness to the nom this is the sort of article which needs a bit of sleuthing to
WP:BEFORE since it's all pre-internet, but that also means more care needs to be taken.
SportingFlyerT·C 21:39, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
I always conduct a Before check and looked at ProQuest and Newspapers.com.
Let'srun (
talk) 21:43, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep appears to pass
WP:GNG in multiple historical sources.
SportingFlyerT·C 21:39, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep per sources above which show notability.
GiantSnowman 19:10, 3 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Weak Keep. Its close, but I do think that there's enough here for notability per
WP:NBASIC.
BeanieFan11 (
talk) 19:23, 3 August 2023 (UTC)reply
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talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
A US national player and member of the Olympic team, which are no small accomplishments.
Obit mentions him as being a well-recognized name in STL and the St. Louis Sports Hall of fame
calls him a "local legend."
Inducted into the STL Soccer HOF. In-depth story
here from USSoccer.com, though I'm not sure that'd count as independent. A SIGCOV story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatchhere (
p2).
Plenty of mentions in Newspapers.com (e.g.
123). This feels like someone who should be kept.
BeanieFan11 (
talk) 15:50, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Completely agree this does feel like an article which should be kept based on the public information we have available, even though football wasn't well covered in the USA at the time (St Louis was actually one of the exceptions.) I can't access any of the newspaper links, though.
SportingFlyerT·C 19:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep per
WP:BASIC, BeanieFan has shown there is enough to pass the basic criteria, which also makes me feel the nominator hasn't bothered doing a
WP:BEFORE. :/
Govvy (
talk) 21:37, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
In fairness to the nom this is the sort of article which needs a bit of sleuthing to
WP:BEFORE since it's all pre-internet, but that also means more care needs to be taken.
SportingFlyerT·C 21:39, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
I always conduct a Before check and looked at ProQuest and Newspapers.com.
Let'srun (
talk) 21:43, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep appears to pass
WP:GNG in multiple historical sources.
SportingFlyerT·C 21:39, 2 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep per sources above which show notability.
GiantSnowman 19:10, 3 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Weak Keep. Its close, but I do think that there's enough here for notability per
WP:NBASIC.
BeanieFan11 (
talk) 19:23, 3 August 2023 (UTC)reply
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