Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rocky Roe

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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. John254 00:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rocky Roe

Rocky Roe (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Not sure this person is worthy of being listed on WP. Article is about a major league umpire where there are many others listed. See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Baseball_umpires. and 1990 World Series which has a reference to the article. BuickCenturyDriver 07:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak keep He also did the 1999 Series (see the box score here). I think umpiring multiple World Series is a sufficient claim of notability. -- Kicking222 14:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Long time Major League umpire, definitely worth keeping. Citicat 16:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Stub's topic is verifiable; see [1] for Google hits that are only about the umpire and not the photographer or others. Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball doesn't appear to have specific guidelines for notability of umpires. Lacking those, I'm leaning weak delete since I'm not confident Roe meets the general guidelines of "multiple non-trivial third-party coverage". Umping World Series and All-Star games puts him on the edge of being notable enough within his sub-niche of baseball. But I'd have to see either feature coverage in baseball publications or substantial coverage in mainstream media before I could give it a "keep" !vote. Sources please? Barno 17:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Changing !vote to keep now that editors have added citations from multiple sources and added notable games that Roe umpired. Thanks for getting onto this one, folks! Barno 04:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Multiple World Series makes him notable in my mind. --Falcorian (talk) 19:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Umpired in nine postseason series and two All-Star Games in a 22-year career. There are a number of umpires with articles who have worked far less in the postseason (and one or two with no postseason experience). MisfitToys 22:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I tagged the original version ('Rocky Roe is an umpire who calls balls and strikes at Major Leage Baseball games') for deletion but with all the extra content, this is a keeper. --Steve (Slf67) talk 01:55, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
    Kudos to MisfitToys for providing the details. BuickCenturyDriver 02:29, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notable as a major league umpire; article is already well sourced to meet any verifiability concerns. Silensor 03:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • keep and note to th nominator The reason there are many major league umpires is that WP often includes them, and that there were many should have perhaps caused you to rethink your AfD nomination.DGG 07:17, 12 January 2007 (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.