Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Inman

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 keep. MBisanz ^talk 01:04, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will Inman

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Non notable minor league free agent baseball player. Deprodded for no reason. Spanneraol (talk) 03:48, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not notable--Yankees10 17:09, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:38, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

delete not notable --Shorthate (talk) 20:38, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~Leaning towards~~ keep. Non-trivial coverage in multiple publications.[1][2] – Muboshgu (talk) 20:41, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- HBWS seals the deal for me with the sources he found below, which I feel push this over the bar of GNG. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:25, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not notable per WP:BASEBALL/N ...William 00:21, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Boston's minor league player page. He has reached AAA. Muboshgu did find one good ref (other was from San Diego Padres). Think this would come under WP:BASEBALL/N's rule #7. Bgwhite (talk) 07:56, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Except he is no longer with Boston. Spanneraol (talk) 14:02, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And MLB.com is independent of MLB. The bottom of the story says "Lisa Winston is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs." – Muboshgu (talk) 17:41, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We're about a week into the minor league free agency period. Hardly any minor league free agents have signed new deals yet. People freak out about minor leaguers being free agents every year, and the vast majority of them have new deals by the start of the season. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 18:29, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I do agree that being a "minor league free agent" is not a valid reason to delete. It needs to be about the coverage such a person has received. I think Inman is right on that borderline, but I'm not for sure on which side.[3] – Muboshgu (talk) 18:42, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. He meets the WP:GNG, as do most players good enough to earn a spot on a team's 40-man roster, if anyone bothers to do the research. In addition to Muboshgu's sources, I found these with about 30 seconds' worth of research: [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], etc. Inman has had an extremely accomplished minor league career. He played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game, he was at one point one of Baseball America's Top 100 minor league prospects, and he's a three-year minor-league All-Star (2006, 2007, and 2008). If we don't want to have a page for a player like him, we may as well not cover minor league baseball at all. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 18:48, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:26, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Hit bull, ~~you're in big trouble~~ win steak. AutomaticStrikeout 04:16, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- "Would it be possible to get him topic banned from de-prodding if the disruptiveness continues? AutomaticStrikeout 18:47, 13 November 2012 (UTC)" - My "disruptiveness" de-prodded an article you now want to keep. You're welcome. Kinston eagle (talk) 22:35, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Sources produced by HBWS and Muboshgu satisfy the minimum threshold of notability per WP:GNG. That having been said, if he were a member of a MLB-affiliated organization, I would advocate merging the content to the appropriate "list of" minor league team page. That option is not available. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:10, 17 November 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.