Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linda Burdette

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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 keep.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 04:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Linda Burdette

Linda Burdette (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Unremarkable university/college coach/teacher, fails WP:BIO. Paste (talk) 16:39, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak delete. Not wholly unremarkable; 29 consecutive winning seasons is nothing to sniff at. A cursory glance shows few available sources other than the usual game reports, though. On the other hand, there's WP:CSB to consider; this is a women's Division I team. At what level are coaches automatically notable? --Dhartung | Talk 20:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Nowadays, once a girl reaches college age, chances of making an Olympic team drop precipitously. Since there are no professional gymnastics teams in the US, this is as close as one gets to the top level of competition outside of the Olympics. DarkAudit (talk) 20:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Stifle (talk) 11:18, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per Dhartung. Stifle (talk) 11:18, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. KleenupKrew (talk) 11:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep: An AfD filed on a men's college basketball coach with that resume would provoke a firestorm, and college basketball is not the highest level of amateur competition generally available. A simple G-search for "Linda Burdette" + "gymnastics" turns up numerous articles from reliable sources [1],  RGTraynor  13:50, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. A head coach at a major university. As the notability guidelines for biography say, (c)ompetitors and coaches who have competed at the highest level in amateur sports are always and automatically notable enough, and this coach obviously meets that criterion. I'm tempted to speedily close this as keep. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep per Smerdis of Tlön, I too feel that this person meets the spirit of our WP:BIO guidelines. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 18:30, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Change vote to keep per RGTraynor and Smerdis. Thanks fot the elucidation! --Dhartung | Talk 19:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep due to fulfilling notability and verifiability guidelines. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 21:37, 23 April 2008 (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.