Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bryan Pata (2nd nomination)

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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 was Keep per WP:N (people). Non-admin closure. NAHID 19:10, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bryan Pata

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Non-notable player. Wikipedia is not a memorial site. There's nothing here that claims that this particular football player was notable. There was a previous AfD, which apparently resulted in the article being kept, but nothing has changed since then in this article which explains how this murder victim is somehow different from any other murder victim. Corvus cornixtalk 03:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep "Competitors and coaches who have competed at the highest level in amateur sports" clearly shows that he is notable for both his murder (which generated significant news coverage) as well as simply being a major college football player.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 03:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep He was a high-level NFL draft prospect and was on the watchlist for the Hendricks Award. I've added references corroborating both of these facts. -Elmer Clark (talk) 03:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep His play before he was murdered generated significant press on its own, and thus he is notable for that reason. His murder adds additional sources for referencing the article. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 04:08, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per precedent, major college football players are generally considered notable. The sources added establish notability even more clearly. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 05:41, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong keep He was listed as a high school All-American by SuperPrep. High school All-Americans are inherently notable. Also, he was one of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's top 100 players in the South in his senior year. Blueboy96 06:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I remember seeing this on the news and hearing it on the radio quite a bit. I think that warrants notability. Master of Puppets Care to share? 06:58, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, it's perfectly clear that he meets both general notability criteria ([1]) and also the specific sports criteria (as stated above by User:Thomas.macmillan). --Stormie (talk) 09:26, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
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