Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cameron Roberson

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The result was delete. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 11:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cameron Roberson

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This article is about a college football player who never played a down, and is now done for his career with an injury. He is no where near noteable DMC511 (talk) 18:15, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:03, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:03, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This confirms DMC511 deletion rationale, Delete as WP:BLP1E as he never played a down of college football, and according to the source, probably would never will. Secret ^account 03:01, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Gosh, I'm seeing a lot of articles in a search for +"Cameron Roberson" +"notre dame"... agree the career has ended, but it appears that somehow a good amount of coverage was drummed up, ranging from the Chicago Tribune to the Los Angeles Times.--Paul McDonald (talk) 11:42, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment not because of his accomplishments as a football player, but because somehow there's a lot of media drummed up about him. Would change my position if it proves to be "notoriety" and not "notability"--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:26, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of the sources are about his injury history, which is unfortunate but a WP:BLP1E, no point in keeping BLPs around of people who simply never met notability guidelines as he never played for Notre Dame, and probably never will meet notability. Secret ^account 02:58, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, with extreme prejudice. Notre Dame's website, ESPN and CBS confirm that he never played a down in a regular season college football game. Looks like his media coverage is limited to recruiting blogs and routine mentions regarding his high school sports career. If anyone seriously wants to keep this article, they need to produce links to specific examples of meaningful, non-trivial, non-routine coverage in multiple, independent reliable sources per WP:GNG. As a rule, 99.99% of all high school athletes have no business having a Wikipedia article. This guy does not look like an exception. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:22, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: per Paul - Ret.Prof (talk) 00:29, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:47, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominators rationale.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. While there is a substantial feature story about Roberson in the Los Angeles Daily News, that feature was written during, and is directed at, Roberson's high school career. There is also a short piece from ESPN.com, but that piece is just a brief announcement that a Notre Dame backup running back was injured. While the national coverage could be argued to satisfy notability, I am persuaded to "delete" due to the fact that he never ran a single play or gained a single yard at Notre Dame, and he wasn't even considered a likely starter before the injury ended his career. Cbl62 (talk) 16:24, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.