Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Hankins

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The result was keep. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 04:48, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Hankins

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Appears to fail WP:GNG with only database sources, a few short mentions, the one-time WP:ROUTINE transactional coverage of being hired as a minor league basketball coach (below the level for qualification in WP:NBASKET). No previously notable accomplishments having previously only been a head coach in the NCAA Div II level. At best, it is just WP:TOOSOON, but the Draft:Tom Hankins already exists and was not sent through AfC. Yosemiter (talk) 20:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:12, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:12, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Oklahoma-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:12, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I think this is good enough for the GNG. There are several newspaper articles primarily about him, from across the US. I added a few I found in NewsBank. Being a G-League head coach is reasonably significant. He's an important part of the Indiana Pacers' organization. He also got a decent amount of coverage during his college career. Overall, there seems to be enough here. Zagalejo (talk) 03:07, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- @Zagalejo: Any sources in particular you would like to cite to back up WP:GNG here? Prior to the single transaction of being named a minor league head coach (WP:SUSTAINED, WP:NOTNEWS, and very few mentions since then), he gets basically no coverage of significant depth prior to that transaction. (See the news articles in this time based search where he only gets mentioned as being a Div II coach). His other reports are all school-related primary sources as far as I can ascertain. Yosemiter (talk) 17:54, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - I think the 2021 Journal Gazette and the 2015 Tulsa World articles cited in the Wiki page are substantial enough. The 2012 Tulsa World and 2017 Miami News-Record articles were also reasonably informative (not just brief mentions), but I don’t have links to them. (There are still lots of newspaper articles that aren’t easily found on Google, but are available via library services.) I started searching for sources because I do think a G-League coach is someone readers may want to look up on Wikipedia. The material I found seems adequate compared to what I’ve seen in AFDs over the years. We can disagree on that; different strokes for different folks. Zagalejo (talk) 19:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 00:34, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 05:26, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, for the reasons of those who want this article kept. Davidgoodheart (talk) 22:55, 26 March 2021 (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.