Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derek Buttles (2nd nomination)

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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 16:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Derek Buttles

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Buttles seems never to have played a regular season game, and is therefore not notable, bu the usual standards for this sport. DGG ( talk ) 03:19, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: There seems to be more coverage about his attempts to go to the NFL than most players, see, e.g., [1] [2], perhaps because he doesn't come from powerhouse footballs areas for high school or college, but ultimately he is not substantively different than other bios deleted for not playing a regular season NFL game.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 12:19, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 07:09, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Coverage I'm finding is local, including: (1) this and this from the Bangor Daily News, (2) this from Portland Press Herald, (3) this from Warsaw's County Courier, (4) this and (5) this from The Daily News (Batavia, NY). Cbl62 (talk) 02:16, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:NGRIDIRON and WP:GNG. No significant independent coverage. Local coverage is not enough.Jakejr (talk) 03:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 07:28, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as a WP:GNG pass, per Cbl62's sources. Ejgreen77 (talk) 02:15, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'm struggling with this one, guys. The subject is not particularly noteworthy as a college football player (and never played in an NFL regular season game), but putting aside the usual transactional coverage of injuries and free agent signings, he has received significant coverage in the small town, local newspapers of his home region in upstate New York. To my way of thinking, the subject is one of those ex-CFB players who is primarily known for his efforts to make an NFL squad. This is a gray area for me: technically satisfying a minimum level of coverage for GNG, but with nothing substantive underneath. He was a decent CFB player, but what significant coverage there is, is about a failed effort to make an NFL team. Is that encyclopedic? Do we really want several hundred of these perma-stub article about unsuccessful NFL free agents? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:05, 9 October 2015 (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.