Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott oliaro

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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 redirect to University of North Carolina, his current place of employment. Possibly notable but the very poor state of this article means that leaving it as it is would be a bad idea. Any future article will need way better sourcing. Moreschi If you've written a quality article... 20:24, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scott oliaro

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Insufficiently notable college athlete and trainer. "In 1999 Sports Illustrated dubbed him the 42nd best athlete to ever come out of Vermont." That shouldn't be enough to get one into a general reference encyclopedia. NawlinWiki (talk) 22:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - fails WP:BIO no reliable sources referenced. Sting_au Talk 01:32, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete The (weakly) asserted notability is not sufficient to meet WP:BIO. Maralia (talk) 03:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep but dear God, do something more than dump the guy's resume on here. I don't have time to mess with it, but did a quick search on Google and discovered at minimum that Mr. O a) was a record-breaking Ivy League athlete and b) is a published (author? subject matter expert?) on head trauma injury. Will send a note asking for revision by original author, who I HOPE is not Scott Oliaro himself (ahem, WP:COI) ΨνPsinu 21:41, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Psiun, respect, but I'm not convinced Mr. Olario meets notability. The Google 'author' thing appears to refer to papers rather than books. The '42nd-best-athlete' phrase unfortunately sounds like a joke. --Lockley (talk) 07:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - it does appear that he was a significant college athlete. There is a NY Times article about his record breaking performance. There are also a couple of articles behind pay-to-view walls from the Boston Globe and LA Times. -- Whpq (talk) 17:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I wikified the article somewhat and tried to add the references, but it still needs some cleanup. --NickPenguin(contribs) 21:47, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete. I had to think about this one for a while. He broke one record, and that was pretty much it for him. Is a single-game Ivy League record notable? If it was an SEC record I'd say yeah, but a Division I-AA record I can't say so. Does being a head athletic trainer make him notable, probably not. The two combined? Maybe, it's tough to say. It's a tough call though, I can see both sides of it. I'm fine with it being closed either way. Wizardman 18:01, 24 December 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.