Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Tennessee
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Tennessee
2020 Tennessee swatting
- 2020 Tennessee swatting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No evidence of lasting coverage. Everything I could find was within a few weeks of the perpetrator being convicted. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:31, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Events, Internet, and Tennessee. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:31, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
- Keep: The lack of continuing coverage many years after the event does not alone constitute an indication that the subject lacks WP. The event garnered extensive coverage by several independent reliable sources, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, KrebsOnSecurity, and WKRN, along with the United States Department of Justice in terms of its resulting criminal prosecution and sentence. There was more than one short article about the matter; the sources covered the events of the swatting incident, the death of Herring, the extortion attempt using the "@Tennessee" username, the behavior of the perpetrators, and the prosecution of the matter.
- I agree that the article should not be implying continuing significance where there is none in the sources. However, the lack of continued coverage following the conviction is not necessarily an indicator that the subject was not originally notable. Alazar202 (talk) 07:16, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect to Swatting#2020 Tennessee incident as an ATD. Case is fairly cut-and-dry, and all the salient points are already covered in the target page. It could be expanded a bit, perhaps, but there's really not a whole lot to add to what is already there. Contrary to the statement above, the lack of continued coverage is absolutely a salient point. The subject of every news article that makes it in the WaPo or NYT does not need a Wikipedia entry. nf utvol (talk) 13:44, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect to Swatting#2020 Tennessee incident. Ongoing coverage is in fact something we expect; I can see keeping the entry in the list but there's really nothing to say beyond what already appears there. Mangoe (talk) 16:35, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
Ryan Rote
- Ryan Rote (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Doesn't appear to meet Notability (sports). I can only find sources on database sites, nothing to show notability. Ajheindel (talk) 03:00, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and Baseball. Ajheindel (talk) 03:00, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related AfD discussions. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 07:31, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Australia and Tennessee. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:37, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete - searches of gsearch and gnews turn up no coverage - fails WP:GNG and likely fails WP:NSPORT Bungle491 (talk) 20:39, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Non-notable athlete. nf utvol (talk) 08:38, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge - The article looked a lot worse when the two deletes voted because someone removed a multitude of "unsourced" paragraphs. The paragraphs in question were simply sourced incorrectly (for Wikipedia), as they were sourced more like an academic paper. I have fixed the sourcing, and this does appear to be good information. I propose merging this with Vanderbilt Commodores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LightningThrower (talk • contribs) 20:16, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
- What information do you propose gets merged? Even with the information you restored, there is nothing that suggests notability for inclusion on either page. Ajheindel (talk) 21:07, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
- That he used to hold the record for saves in a season at 11.
- -- LightningThrower (talk) 16:59, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
- What information do you propose gets merged? Even with the information you restored, there is nothing that suggests notability for inclusion on either page. Ajheindel (talk) 21:07, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete. GNG coverage not identified. Sources are entirely non-independent and thus not suitable for merging anyway. JoelleJay (talk) 11:32, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as per above discussion, although I am not against a redirect. Bearian (talk) 19:24, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
Tennessee pages proposed for deletion
The following Tennessee-related pages have been proposed for deletion using the {{prod}} template: