Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Jordan (basketball)

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The result was keep. — CharlotteWebb 01:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] James Jordan (basketball)

Nom - not notable except for fathering a notable person; his murder was only notable due to the same relationship. This subject is already covered in MJ's article. Rklawton 01:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• keep while ONLY being the father of a famous person is not in-and-of-itself notable; this was a murder victim who also received notable press. HOWEVER, the article is very poorly written, and needs a complete NPOV rewrite, including perhaps a name change, since he wasn't famous for any basketball reading. --Jayron32 02:26, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's the subject of multiple non-trivial published works: [1] [2] [3] [4] From the first page of the hits. Ultra-Loser ^{[ T ] [ C ]} 02:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Ultra-Loser and Jayron. He's not there as a famous father, he's there as a famous murder victim. Bryan Pata just survived an AfD along similar lines -- he got the requisite press coverage. SliceNYC 02:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep Pretty clearly notable as a part of a newsworthy event, press coverage in multiple non-trivial publications, as per WP:BIO. Article certainly could use expansion, though. Tubezone 02:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The murder receieved quite a bit of press attention at the time. As mentioned above, the article does need to be improved some (I already did some rephrasing) and it badly needs citations, but it is of a notable subject and it is definitely salvageable. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 02:46, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but it needs a huge re-write. FamicomJL 03:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. ReverendG 03:41, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Though I'm not comfortable saying (basketball) as the descriptor, I can't really think of anything especially better. (murder victim) seems a bit too blithe. This article could be expanded though, with at least a few more details. If nt, at the worst, merge into Michael Jordan's article. FrozenPurpleCube 03:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. Keep if there is more to his notoriety than his murder. Otherwise, I'd suggest that if the article is to remain in its own space, it should be named according to the event rather than the person. -- Tim D 04:01, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Jayron. --Wizardman 17:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, per everyone before me.__Seadog ^♪ 18:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but rename. Received notable media coverage, but I think that it should be renamed as "Basketball" isn't appropriate.
• Keep, definitely notable due to the attention paid to his death. Anybody who received this much press coverage should have an article. Everyking 11:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• keep and please rename since this person is not a basketball Yuckfoo 22:14, 26 November 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.