The result was Delete. To spend this much time discussing the minutiae of interpretation of a supplemental notability guideline (that is, one intended to make the determination of notability easier than the general notability guideline), seems quite silly. Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Athletes is not intended to be another hurdle that an article must pass to be considered notable. It is intended to be a shortcut to otherwise having to prove-out references according to WP:N. Since the guideline fails us in this case, as it makes it much harder, we must put it aside and get back to the general guideline. That would be the whole bit about the subject having been the subject of a substantial depth of coverage published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject, or non-trivial coverage of less substantial depth in multiple such sources. So all we needed to find was multiple independent reliable sources backing up reasonable assertions of importance or significance of the subject. As this discussion failed to yield same, and extraordinary efforts to make it fit WP:ATHLETE obviously failed, my decision is therefore to delete the article. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 00:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Pro footballer for a single-season; doesn't seem to meet notability requirements. I'm not an expert in aussie football by any means though, so I'm deferring this to AfD in case I'm missing something here. Shell babelfish 17:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]