Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Lewis

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 04:24, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sean Lewis

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This article is about a former American/Canadian football player without reliable sourcing to establish notability. The article makes the claim that Lewis played briefly for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL and the BC Lions of the CFL. Per WP:ATHLETE this would meet notability if he played in a game for either of these teams. However, I can find no indication that he meets the inclusion criteria for athletes. I checked the NFL historical players list searching for lewis and found no sean lewis listed at all. Unfortunately, the CFL does not keep detailed historical records. Searches through news archives turn up no record of him playing in a CFL game. The profile from his company seems to be rather cagey in its wording about his football career stating that "Sean had opportunities to play professionally with the San Diego Chargers (NFL) and the B.C. Lions (CFL)." (emphasis added) which would seem to imply that he had tryouts, and maybe made some sort of reserve squad or got placed on an injury list but never actually played. Whpq (talk) 15:04, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not-notable under WP:GNG and most definitely does not qualify under WP:ATHLETE. I found zero to show that this guy had even been cut from the Chargers or the B.C. Lions, let alone "playing" for them, contrary to his press releases [1]. That said, I have no reason to believe anything in the rest of the promotion, including the references to co-ownership with Von Hutchins (whose article makes no mention of it) or to Nook Logan-- the reference to CTG was added in by a ~~URL~~ an IP [2]. This fails the most basic test of inclusion in an encyclopedia, which is citation to reliable and verifiable sources. Mandsford 16:47, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Question: Did you meant to say it was added in by an anonymous IP? -- Whpq (talk) 16:58, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I should have said. I see that I wrote that it was a URL that added it (and I'll bet if it was, his name is "Linc"). Thanks. Mandsford 18:11, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete no sources given--Paul McDonald (talk) 00:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Didn't check the Chargers claim, but at least one source does not list him on the all-time CFL roster. I see no other strong assertions of notability. Strikehold (talk) 04:36, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.