Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy van Volkenburgh

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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.

The result of the debate was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:17, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andy van Volkenburgh

NN minor leaguer. claim to fame seems to be height and weight. Height, confirmed elsewhere online, is same as Yao Ming. Weight I could not confirm, and he don't look 432 lb. on this picture [1]. Not the highest - there are many higher basketball players w/o articles. Delete. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 19:18, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete No matter how big he is, he's non-notable. He isn't tall enough to have an article simply because he's tall. Otherwise, he's a former player on a team that doesn't have its own WP page in a league that doesn't exist anymore. -- Kicking222 21:29, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge to List of famous tall men; this guy seems comparable to Andy Charlton (who has no article, but is also on the list) ... if we could find enough information on him to make this more than a perma-stub, I'd say keep. But I think this guy's height is really very extraordinary. There are basketball players higher up, yes, but not a lot. I've seen this guy listed 9th and 20th on two different lists of tallest basketball players on the web. It's just, what else can we say? Mangojuicetalk 04:32, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


This AfD is being relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new discussion below this notice. Thanks!
bainer (talk) 14:26, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep per nom. Xyrael T 16:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination. ScottW 00:06, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete bad article on a non-notable person Deleteme42 11:41, 5 June 2006 (UTC)


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.