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Ralph Ledbetter

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Fails WP:NATHLETE. Ledbetter's professional career in European basketball was unremarkable and does not seem to have yielded coverage in German and Luxembourgish news. The currently listed sources are his entry in the Glenville State College Hall of Fame showering affiliated praise, a user comment from the DC Basketball Blog (not even the blog post itself), minor discussion of his single-game performance in The Glenville Mercury student newspaper, and a YouTube interview from the channel Alumni4life, a local varsity jackets retailer. While I found two other instances of Ledbetter's performance reported in the Glenville Mercury, neither instance bothered to mention his season-wide performance, much less broader commentary on him as an athlete/person. Being twice named to the First All-WVIAC Team is impressive, but for a NCAA Division II conference, that achievement seems below WP:NCOLLATH. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 15:58, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Basketball, and Maryland. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:56, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Found some more coverage at [[1]], [[2]], [[3]], and [[4]]. Let'srun (talk) 19:10, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciate the identification of additional sources! I think the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Indiana Gazette coverage when Ledbetter was playing in their respective areas is below the WP:NCOLLATH criterion of gaining "national media attention as an individual". Similarly, the Bedford County Press and Everett Press article is only a local newspaper reporting Saint Francis University's pride at recruiting Ledbetter. The Evening Sun article on Ledbetter's threat to not play at Crossland High School if transferred from Largo High School as part of D.C.'s racial integration is pretty interesting, though that coverage is not significant on him, nor did he follow through on that threat. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 19:40, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent info! JoseyWales019 (talk) 22:10, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bryan Greenlee

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All I was able to find on this basketball player was this interview with the subject and this interview with his parents, which I don't believe warrant a standalone article. JTtheOG (talk) 07:32, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: Not seeing sufficient independent SIGCOV to pass WP:NSPORT/WP:GNG. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:00, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: There appears to be very little coverage of this individual beyond primary sources Garsh (talk) 17:55, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep (with work) - May meet notability due to FAU Final Four run. 1. trivial mention. 2. Televion interview. 3. Good source, notable mention. 4. Half discusses career, in short WPTV article. 5. Trivial mention, part of team that went to final 4 and contributed as a player. 6. Trivial mention in indep.article. 7. Interview (uni page)

Wq4m820 (talk) 21:14, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Found some coverage at [[5]], [[6]], and [[7]]. Let'srun (talk) 19:18, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- 1: team-specific microblog (Owls247.com), author graduated from the same uni in 2023, also just 3 sentences of direct coverage
- 2: routine interview from unreliable source (WP:SPORTSKEEDA), also just 2 sentences of direct coverage
- 3: routine coverage from a reliable source
JTtheOG (talk) 20:27, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex

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Not a notable stadium. Search turns up a few articles which mention the stadium by name when discussing games there, but no significant coverage of the stadium itself. Other sources include a database entry and the club's own website. — Moriwen (talk) 22:34, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Arnett Gardens F.C. as possible search term. Possibly notable. Giant Snowman 20:21, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to the person it was named after Anthony_Spaulding#Minister_of_Housing. It is a multiple sport complex and is mentioned in the redirect. Not notable on its own. Can be salvaged with merge. Ramos1990 (talk) 06:44, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge per Ramos1990 Czarking0 (talk) 02:40, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jackson Kreuser

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Does not meet WP:BIO. Sources cited are several database entries, a paid publicity announcement, and a single local news announcement of a transfer. News search turns up a few mentions of his name in lists of players, but no in-depth coverage. — Moriwen (talk) 01:44, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment - is better known as “Rocky Kreuser” in the USA. When you search that, looks borderline keep/delete so will do a thorough review later. Rikster2 (talk) 22:18, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. No significant coverage/notability. JohnMizuki (talk) 07:33, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Frank T. Monahan

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Does not meet WP:BIO. Sources are three database entries and a brief obit from his college, none of which are significant independent coverage; nothing better turns up on search. — Moriwen (talk) 23:23, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Leaning Keep, appears to meet GNG, see e.g. this, this and this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Merrimack Warriors men's basketball. Not seeing this as passing WP:Basic. Main claim is that the was a coach, but many coaches exist and they do not have their own page. Notability should be clear from the sources, but this is lacking. Ramos1990 (talk) 06:40, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- In what way is coverage lacking? What issue do you have with the presented sources? BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:05, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Passes GNG. Another source: part 1, part 2 ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 04:19, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tino Danevski

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No in-depth coverage of this assistant coach available, just passing mentions in a couple of articles. Does not meet WP:BIO. — Moriwen (talk) 14:11, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 17:13, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball Rookie of the Year

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Seemingly no non-routine coverage in secondary sources. Bulk nom and I have done some WP:BEFORE on all of these Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 01:10, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Most Improved Player of The Year. Meets WP:LISTN with coverage of the grouping: The entirety of the list does not need to be documented in sources for notability, only that the grouping or set in general has been More sources added here — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bagumba (talk • contribs) 08:50, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Sixth Man of the Year. Meets WP:LISTN with additional coverage of the grouping added here.—Bagumba (talk) 09:38, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all. For Big East Conference Women's Basketball Defensive Player of the Year, I was easily able to find reliable secondary sources referencing each of the first 20 recipients of this award from 1997 through 2016 and added the references to the table here. There was a plethora of choices from which I was able to select. You will note that many of the references are not simply published lists from press releases but stories that went beyond routine coverage. Also, coverage in newspapers outside the locality of the award winners was present. This is beyond the standard set by WP:NLIST, since each individual entry does not need to be notable. While I suspect the article in this bulk nomination lack in referencing to demonstrate their notability, it is the referencing that is lacking, not the notability. They deserve tags stating such, but they should not be deleted. Taxman1913 (talk) 14:43, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2024–25 in European women's basketball (A–K)

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With this title, I would expect Information about the European competitions (for clubs or national teams), not a collection of results of national competitions which just happen to share a continent but are otherwise not related. Seems like a weird way to present these. Fram (talk) 10:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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- Delete Almost entirely a difficult to navigate collection of game results and WP:NOTDATABASE so I think this should be deleted. Division of the list by alphabetized country name is also strange; why not by league/division or similar? Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 11:33, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  What do I need to do improve it? ILoveSport2006 (talk) 13:10, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  
  What do I need to do improve it? Can you give me advice please? ILoveSport2006 (talk) 09:58, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  Keep A lot of info and very useful. ILoveSport2006 (talk) 09:59, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Basketball

Basketball

Ralph Ledbetter

Bryan Greenlee

Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex

Jackson Kreuser

Frank T. Monahan

Tino Danevski

Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball Rookie of the Year

2024–25 in European women's basketball (A–K)

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