Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Riley (ice hockey)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) | Uncle Milty | talk | 01:16, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rob Riley (ice hockey)

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Non-notable hockey coach who fails to meet WP:NHOCKEY and in a google search I was unable to find any sources that met WP:GNG. Anything I found was either a primary source or routine coverage. DJSasso (talk) 13:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Served as the Army Black Knights - a Division I NCAA hockey program - for almost twenty years. Found plenty of sources indicating notability: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. --Hockeyben ^{(talk -} ^contribs) 02:14, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Hockeyben. Longtime NCAA coach (especially with the amount of years he served) should meet GNG - there are sources available. – Connormah (talk) 02:59, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree with most other sports. But NCAA hockey is covered considerably less than the other major sports. And usually you never hear about the coaches and usually what sources exist fail WP:GEOSCOPE, in that they are local articles about a local coach, as most of the ones Hockeyben has linked to above do. He did, however, link a SI article though so it is possible he meets GNG. But there wasn't enough to assume he did. -DJSasso (talk) 13:48, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep per Hockeyben. An NCAA Division I head coach is an easy keep. Ejgreen77 (talk) 20:35, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - SI article plus major Boston newspapers, Riley surpasses GNG, reliable secondary sources exist in sufficient quantity to write a biographical article on him. Canada Hky (talk) 00:56, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Plenty of sources from his tenure as an NCAA DI coach, but also from his time as an AHL head coach with the Springfield Falcons. – Nurmsook! ^talk... 20:28, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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