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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 00:07, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Will Gilchrist[edit]

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This is a biographical article is about an athlete in the British Universities American Football League, which I don't believe satisfies WP:ATHLETE. He supposedly will be drafted to the NFL in 2010, but this claim, and the entire article, is unsourced. A Google search turns up no hits that demonstrate this athlete meets our notability guidelines. PDCook (talk) 15:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: A Google search only yields profile and statistics pages. I do not find any articles or secondary sources that suggests the player is notable, hence he does not meat WP:BIO. He has not played a game at the highest level of his sport so he does not meat WP:Athlete. I would also like to add that whether he gets drafted or not is irrelevant, as he has to actually play a game to be considered notable under WP:Athlete, at least based on my interpretation of that section. MATThematical (talk) 23:33, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. I didn't mean to suggest that being drafted would satisfy WP:ATHLETE. I only mentioned it because it was the closest thing to any assertion of notability in the article. PDCook (talk) 01:07, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- Per the nomination, fails WP:ATHLETE and nothing sugests he meets any other potential notability criteria. PackerMania (talk) 02:16, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Based on a search of the NewsBank database, as a supplement to the google search by MATThematical, I found no non-trivial coverage of this player. Cbl62 (talk) 07:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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