Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Lawson

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The result was delete. --Coredesat 06:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Lawson

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Unnotable soccer player at a small college, Rochester Institute of Technology. He did win all-conference honors and was conference MVP - but I don't suppose that the Empire 8 (which I presume includes schools only in New York State) is a top-flight conference. The one slender thread on which notability might hang is that he "captained Team USA in the 2005 Deaflympics". Team captain in a major sport in a bluelinked event counts for something I suppose, but it really doesn't seem to me to be nearly enough to rate an encyclopedia article. Herostratus 05:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

  • This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude 12:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete RIT is a D3 school, so that part is non-notable. As for the Deaflympics, there are no other athlete articles linked to them (the article has been around for just under two years), so I'm not convinced that appearing in them is enough to be notable. Scottmsg 21:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. This person's notability is well below threshold. Possible WP:COI? Search is made difficult by conventional name, but even Rochester sources confirming "a distinguished career" seem to be elusive. MURGH disc. 02:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as per all comments above --Angelo 14:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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