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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chris McConnell (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Minor League Baseball player who has not played in any league higher than an AA (this year) and does not pass the drafted (with much consensus) Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Notability guidelines. There is debate within WP:Baseball about minor league players qualifying as "fully professional"

Good faith search (add quotation marks, using them in the external link messed up the code) brings up passing mention in articles about the team, no significant coverage of the subject, which means he fails the General notability guidelines. Player does have two "Awards" to his name, in 2005 Baseball America Rookie All-Star (I wouldn't call a rookie all-star award from a magazine a major award), and the 2005 PIO Post-Season All-Star (not sure what that is). kelapstick (talk) 16:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom's pretty exhaustive reasoning. Drmies (talk) 17:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to Kansas City Royals minor league players. His post season award is from the rookie class Pioneer League. Seems like a decent enough prospect to maintain on team page. 17:08, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable minor leaguer.--Giants27 ^T/C 17:16, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. blackngold29 20:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: This individual appears to be pass WP:BIO. The above search for sources was only for the past month. This Google News Archive search returns many more results. Cunard (talk) 00:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, the references need to be checked to make sure they are substantial coverage, not just a passing mention.--kelapstick (talk) 04:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as per the above comments, player does not meet requirements according to WP:ATHLETE. Mandermagic (talk) 07:56, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• comment player does not pass Wikipedia:Notability (sports)#Baseball which is a more lax guideline than the proposed notability guideline either.--kelapstick (talk) 15:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or merge. There's a high school baseball/football player of the same name who might be more notable (and is causing havoc with my searches). I'm getting lots of ghits for both players, but the ones for this one are just passing mentions. I'm not quite convinced the two awards add up to notability.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Statistics or brief mentions in articles about minor league teams do not constitute "significant coverage in reliable sources," as required by WP:N. BRMo (talk) 04:11, 19 April 2009 (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.