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Baseball
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[edit]- Kelly Jack Swift (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This is a biography of a minor league baseball player who falls well short of the notability criteria whether for a baseball player, sportsperson or any other person. The lone news coverage referenced in this article (which is not cited inline) is a Sports Illustrated article about a metal detectorist finding a minor league championship ring of his. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 00:12, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Baseball and North Carolina. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 00:12, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- Comment - Holy cow. That was 14 years ago, and I expect I wrote it on the strength of the S.I. article about him. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:27, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:37, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep Besides the strong SI piece, there's plenty through Newspapers.com: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 12:43, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep. He absolutely fails the now-obsolete athlete and baseball criteria, but he also absolutely passes the GNG criteria with the sources noted. Wizardman 15:16, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep - easily passes GNG. Rlendog (talk) 14:22, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep - clear pass of GNG which supersedes any perceived failure of an SNG. Frank Anchor 12:30, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
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