Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Kinkella (2nd nomination)

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 Delete. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 06:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Kinkella (2nd nomination)

Mike Kinkella (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Notability not established as "Grand Rapids Developmental Arena Football League" returns only this article in a Google search, and no record exists of Kinkella with the Columbus Destroyers, leading one to believe these claims are entirely fictional.Dhmachine31 23:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. TJ Spyke 00:05, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I happened to come across this page [1] listing Kinkella as part of the New Orleans VooDoo in the AFL; and this page [2] listing him as presently or formerly part of the Arizona Rattlers in the AFL. Most of the hits for Kinkella point to Wikipedia and mirrors, though. I'm not going to cast a !vote at this point, since I can't say with confidence whether Kinkella really is a notable AFL player (and I'm not sure what precedent says about the notability of Arena Football players). --Hyperbole 00:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete He's not an Arena Football player at all. According to the page itself he's only 18 years old. If he were an AFL player - which he's not - it would be a large news story in the league, the youngest player ever to play. That news story doesn't exist anywhere, because it's not true. There is no Mike Kinkella on any transaction list, any roster, any player database (including the comprehensive ArenaFan.com website, which lists statistics for all players) for the AFL. This article was voted for deletion once before, and it should be again. Dhmachine31 04:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete The two pages listed in the above comment are just rebranded Wikipedia pages, so most likely those were just vandalism. I checked the player database on my site ArenaFan.com and we do not have a record of him at all, and while the player search only returns players who have been in a game, our data entry area did not return a record, which would exist if he had appeared in any transactions. Furthermore, a player cannot be "signed to the practice squad" until the regular season rosters have been finalized.

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.