Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jevan Snead

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. W.marsh 01:16, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jevan Snead

Jevan Snead (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Contested PROD for non-notable athlete. I didn't speedy because Texas is the reigning national college champion, but this fellow is just a back-up. Delete Xoloz 17:29, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete a freshman back-up player. While there was an effort made to establish notability, I find it insufficient.I would have supported a Speedy (especially since I tagged it that way in the first place). --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 17:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Changing my comment because the article has been improved and the subject's notability has been established. I'll politely refrain from comment about how Texans seem to obsess about their football teams :) Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 06:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I'd write more - but I have game film of the 1972 Cotton Bowl I have to re-watch. :-) Johntex\^talk 06:39, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - It's possible this kid will be starting in a year and at that time the article can be recreated. No real point in userfying the data that exists right now. →Bobby← 17:39, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete (but don't salt). A backup QB for the Longhorns doesn't seem enough to warrent an article. Jevan, you're encouraged to prove me wrong in the next couple of years. --Oakshade 05:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC) Vote changed to Weak Keep per Johntex.--Oakshade 07:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Khoikhoi 05:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The article was just recently created, right after Snead saw some playing time vs. Kansas State after Colt McCoy got injured. I'll deduce that he wasn't notable in the first place, and the only reason to create the article was because of his brief action last Saturday. A few snaps doesn't make you notable. SliceNYC 01:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - One of two freshman quarterbacks playing for the reigning national championship team. He's a very highly recruited player with more than enough information available about him to write a full article, even though the article is currently only a stub. He may be the starting quarterback next weekend if Colt McCoy is not ready to play. Just a few weeks ago, there was an attempt to delete the Colt McCoy article as well. Johntex\^talk 05:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment I expanded the article with some of Snead's high school honors as well as college stats. The article has 12 references now. I learned something interesting in the process: Snead's game against Kansas State has the distinction of being the most points ever scored by UT in a losing effort. Snead gave a good performance coming in off the bench, but the defense collapsed. I'll add more as I have time, if the article is not deleted. Johntex\^talk 07:14, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Keep If you delete this article now, you will just have to recreate it again in the future VarunRajendran.

• Keep All-American and two time All-state awards are more than enough for an article, since being All-American guarantees there will be national coverage. Unfocused 13:05, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep National news, QB for a major DI-A program. The AFD was probably a little premature. --MECU≈talk 14:58, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete A backup college quarterback doesn't warrant an article. Yes he did take over for Colt McCoy when McCoy was injured, BUT he'll be back on the bench as McCoy returns as the starter on Nov. 25, 2006. As long as McCoy stays healthy, he'll be the backup quarterback to McCoy, and McCoy is a redshirt freshman, meaning that he'll be there for the next 3 years. Granted that Snead is a true freshman, who's to say that he won't be beaten out for the #2 spot at quarterback by someone else next year? If that is the case, then would there be a need to put an article on a 3rd string quarterback? I'd vote delete for now, IF however he becomes the permenant starter, THEN there would be a need for this article, at this current point he is not the starter and I stand by my decision to delete. Someone above (>Johntex brought up the point that Snead is a backup for the reigning national championship college football team, so what? Come 2007, a new champion will be crowned in college football, should we also make articles for the backup quarterback of the 2007 college football team or better yet should we make articles for all of the backup quarterbacks of past national championship college football teams? I think not, as that would be pointless. Like I've said before, IF and WHEN he becomes the permenant starter, go ahead and recreate the article. Abstrakt 00:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment I see no harm to having articles on back-up quarterbacks if they are well sourced and well written. Besides, his high school accomplishments are notable even if he had never taken a snap in college. As Wikipedia expands, we will naturally have more in-depth coverage of more topics, including more minor figures in sports, politics, music, etc. Johntex\^talk 01:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment Like I said before, IF he were to remain as a backup quarterback to Colt McCoy or be beaten out by someone else next year and never see any playing time again, he would be just that, a high school quarterback who played a couple of games in college. That is why I voted for delete. I mean "minor sports figures" is really pushing it, at this rate we might as well start up articles on high school athletes who didn't go beyond high school. Abstrakt 01:58, 18 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.