Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Kaepernick

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 No consensus defaulting to keep. Further details of this case should be discussed in WP:BIO. --Polaron | Talk 03:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Colin Kaepernick

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The subject is a college football player who started his first game ten days before this article was created. While this game apparently received a fair deal of media attention, the notability of the subject is not supported by any reliable sources. Although I am not 100% clear on the policy for college atheletes, I did some digging around and found that notability at the college level seems to hinge on the individual being recognized by an organization or third party as a particularly notable player. I'll conceed that recognition may be in this young man's future, but Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, and a lack of notability here in the present means that this article should be deleted and only recreated when the subject attains true notability.

In the interest of disclosure, I would also like to note that I nominated this article for CSD, and the admin who rejected my request suggested either prod or AfD in his edit summary. --jonny-mt(t)(c) 07:46, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, college athlete, participating in one notable game doesn't equal encyclopedic notability. NawlinWiki 17:47, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Per WP:BIO's criteria for athletes: "Competitors who have played or competed at the highest level in amateur sports (who meet the general criteria of secondary sources published about them)." It is generally accepted that in the U.S., playing for a college team qualifies as playing/competing at the highest level in amateur sports. Also, it is quite likely that there are secondary sources that can be used to cite the article, as he appears to be a key figure in a rather notable game. (A quick Google search seems to turn up quite a few, in fact.) LaMenta3 18:24, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The article appears to establish sufficient notable and should be able to be expanded. Reliable sources appear to exist, even though they aren't currently cited. Karanacs 18:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 10:33, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

• keep as per lamenta Barsportsunlimited 17:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete there are two professional football leagues in the US. Thus a college player needs to have something particularly significant to warrant an article. Subject doesn't meet that, although it's a decent probability he will. Horrorshowj 11:17, 4 November 2007 (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.