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Drayson Bowman

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Nonnotable junior hockey player. Does not meet WP:ATHLETE.There is a long established precedence that major junior hockey players are not notable. Smashville^talk 04:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

• Delete All junior athletes are NN per ATHLETE. This should probably be PROD rather than AfD. Potatoswatter (talk) 07:59, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

• Prod was contested. --Smashville^talk 17:02, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. Not notable per WP:ATHLETE Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 17:02, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 12:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hockey-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 12:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, as he seems to have received enough coverage from multiple reliable sources to make him notable. Although WP:ATHLETE says that he's not notable simply for being a junior hockey player, it does not say that junior hockey players aren't notable: if James, Viscount Severn (a British prince plainly notable) were to become a junior hockey player, it wouldn't make him nonnotable. Rather, ATHLETE says that they aren't notable unless they become notable other ways, which (in my mind) is true of Bowman. Nyttend (talk) 20:56, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

That's faulty logic. The prince is notable for being a prince. Bowman doesn't have coverage for anything outside of being a juniors player. The coverage of the juniors player is based on game results for his being a juniors player, not for something outside of playing hockey. --Smashville^talk 21:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Besides which, the "seems to have received" construction is unacceptable. Either he has received, as WP:BIO requires, "significant coverage that addresses the subject directly in detail" or he has not. So far, no evidence has been proffered that this is the case, and simple "Bowman scored a third period goal" references in articles also mentioning several other players are just the kind of trivial mentions disallowed by WP:BIO. Delete.  Ravenswing  13:36, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

• Delete the coverage he has recieved has been only for hockey and that coverage is not enough to satisfy WP:BIO or WP:ATHLETE. Blackngold29 14:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. While I agree that junior hockey players can be notable, either by winning a notable, high profile award such as a POY or being a first round draft pick in the NHL, this one is not notable. His highest profile award is being a member of the 2008 Memorial Cup All-Star team. Patken4 (talk) 22:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable per WP:ATHLETE. Can be recreated when/if he ever plays professionally or otherwise achieves notability. -Djsasso (talk) 20:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

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