Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Berman

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 Speedy Keep as a bad faith nomination by an anonymous user. Capitalistroadster 01:30, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Berman

nn Doesn't really seem encycliopeadic. 205.188.117.8 22:48, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Keep. This guy's right up there with Howard Cosell in the longevity and name-recognition department. I hardly follow sports at all and know who this guy is. Mo0[talk] 22:51, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and cleanup some of the memorable phrases. Notable broadcaster who meets WP:BIO. 156,000 Google hits for Chris Berman see [1] and 154 Google News hits [2] indicate notability and verifiability. Capitalistroadster 22:58, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• The Swami predicts this article will be keept! Which is not gramatically correct, of course, but I just wanted to make the keep bit really clear. Notable sportscasters are encylopaedic, even if listening to him go "backbackbackbackbackgooooooooooooooooooone" 120 times every Home Run Derby gets really annoying. Lord Bob 23:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• Personally, I think ya'll are just makin up all this stuff. Look, nothing shows that the guy actually exists. You guys probably photoshopped up that picture and created a bunch of nonsense names like "Swami" to try and make your case seem presentable. Wikipedia will not stand for this abomination. 205.188.117.8 23:18, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• Emphatic keep - probably one of a handful of most notable sportscasters of the past quarter century. Had this been 20 years ago I'd be voting to merge the ESPN article into Chris Berman. 147.70.242.21 23:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• Ah, here we go again with more likely sockpuppets and their nonsense. *eyeroll* 205.188.117.8 23:36, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep. Longtime broadcaster on a major network with immediate name recognition. This comes close to being a bad faith nomination. Jtmichcock 23:46, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and chastise nominator. --Ezeu 23:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable person. -- Win777 00:56, 1 December 2005 (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.