Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kelly Gregg

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 keep. Ifnord 05:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kelly Gregg

This is a Non Notable American Footballer. His sole claim to fame appears to be that he injured someone in a tackle. Imagine if we list all footballers all around the world who play in their leagues? I believe that Nassau has some particularly splendid football leagues -even if they play with a rattan ball. I originally put this up for PROD claiming lack of notability, but it was removed as apparently there is a consensus that all American footballers are notable, by definition. I look forward to your verdict. Delete Maustrauser 13:25, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep: Per the consensus mentioned by nom. —Wknight94 (talk) 13:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Wknight94. --Terence Ong 13:45, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I would like to think that all professional sports men and women are noteworthy and deserve articles. Is there any policy on this? Project ALF and the like post hundreds of articles about players who may have done nothing extraordinary for a footballer, but are notable by virtue of the fact that they play professional sport. Bobby1011 14:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. We don't call them "footballers". They're "football players". —Wrathchild ^(talk) 14:28, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I agree strongly with Bobby. Anyone who makes an impact of any kind in sports, film, literature, and music should be somewhat noteworthy. Should we disregard Harper Lee because she wrote only one book? But, instead of deleting it, it should be expanded. Yanksox 14:32, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Personally, I'd scale back on that statement unless a precedent exists. In this case, it does - all NFL players have articles and always survive Afd and a project even exists to support the precedent. In other cases, it's not so clear. That's why we have WP:BAND so that every person that has ever walked into a recording studio holding an instrument doesn't have an article. If we allowed that, I bet there would be millions of articles on those alone, 98% of which no one cares about. The number of people that have ever been on an NFL roster is far more manageable. —Wknight94 (talk) 17:14, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Let's give it time to expland, as I suggested in the discussion page. If in a month or two it doesn't grow, then get rid of it. OsFan 17:24, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable football player with the Baltimore Ravens with plenty of verifiable sources available through a Google search see [1]. Clearly meets WP:BIO. Capitalistroadster 18:14, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep real NFL player. We seem to have articles for most of the rest of the Baltimore Ravens, and I don't see why we should blow a hole in our football coverage by deleting this one (why this one, anyway?). If someone wants to lighten our load of sports articles, the way to do so would be to set up a criteria system a la WP:MUSIC, but it seems near certain that NFL players would be considered notable by nearly anyone's standards anyway. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:14, 23 February 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.