Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travis Parrott

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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 delete. A clear consensus. In addition, no evidence of meeting WP:ATHLETE or of directly meeting WP:N. TerriersFan (talk) 21:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Travis Parrott

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College baseball player that fails WP:ATHLETE; does not compete at the professional level.  RGTraynor  13:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 23:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Can't find any evidence in a gsearch that this Travis Parrott is notable, and notability isn't really claimed in the article. Note that there is a tennis player of the same name who probably is notable.--Fabrictramp (talk) 23:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment: The tennis player is indeed notable, being on the pro tour, and bizarrely enough also went to the University of Georgia, but it's a different fellow; he attended Georgia ten years ago.  RGTraynor  03:44, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete concur with Fabrictramp, I find coverage of the tennis player and posssibly a musician, but not this Travis. Does not appear notable TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 00:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Did you type in Travis Parrott Georgia Baseball on google.com? There are over five full pages of links with Parrott. Respectfully, 321Baseball (talk) 08:06, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete No assertion of notability, and Google doesn't reveal anything convincing. — Wenli (reply here) 03:25, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, I guess I am alone here. :( If you guys want to delete the article then I can't stop ya. It's a shame, there's a ton of newspaper articles out there available on Parrott but they are linked online anymore. I don't have the slightest clue how to reference them but the stories are about how Parrott is one of the top athletes to ever come out of Brevard County. Thanks for you imput everyone. 321Baseball (talk) 21:22, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

And he may well have been, but if he has not played professional ball - which it does not seem he's doing - and he didn't win top national collegiate honors in his sport - which he didn't - then he fails WP:ATHLETE.  RGTraynor  00:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Does that mean that every college athlete who hasn't won a national championship or All-American status should not have a wikipedia page? I'm disappointed that Parrott doesn't fall into that realm. I guess it is what it is. So by using google.com, that's how you check if someone is notable or not? Respectfully, 321Baseball (talk) 08:04, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much, that's what it means, yes. If you'd like to debate the criteria of WP:ATHLETE, I recommend the talk page there, but it's been very resistant to change, and such momentum as has existed has been to tighten the standards, not loosen them.  RGTraynor  14:42, 24 May 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.