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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delano Johnson[edit]

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Unreferenced sporting BLP stub. Salimfadhley (talk) 18:28, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:50, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:51, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. The article is sourced and a Google search shows more sources available. The more serious concern is whether the subject passes WP:NGRIDIRON, not having played a professional game. • Gene93k (talk) 20:02, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Lame article, needs lots of work. Subject passes WP:GNG through multiple independent reliable sources.--Paul McDonald (talk) 02:27, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. Paul, you need to do some in-depth homework and provide more critical analysis for this AfD. A Google News Archive search ("Delano Johnson" Bowie State) reveals a total of TWENTY-SEVEN results (see [1]), virtually all of which are fanblogs, sources affiliated with the Bowie State football program, or are simple routine mentions in post-game coverage. I found precisely one piece of in-depth coverage in an independent source (Yahoo Sports), and it's a blog (see [2]). That's pretty slender thread on which to hang GNG notability. If there is other quality, in-depth coverage to be found in independent sources, please provide links. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:10, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Response funny I get 357 a lot of which are news articles but whatever, I'm sure they're not all about this subject.--Paul McDonald (talk) 01:34, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Checking through the first several pages of results, almost none are about this subject. cmadler (talk) 18:51, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Trying to be fair to Paul, I just went through the first ten pages of his Google search linked above. Here are the results: 106 - not the same person; 9 - trivial mention and/or routine game/recruiting coverage; 5 - fansite or team blog; 2 - non-independent Bowie State sources. Of the 122 hits reviewed, not one of them qualifies as a meaningful source for purposes of establishing notability per WP:GNG. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:36, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • Ooops that's all I got... thanks for the research!--Paul McDonald (talk) 04:22, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Very few sources, and none sufficient to establish notability for our purposes. cmadler (talk) 18:51, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Per Cmadler and my comments above. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:36, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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