You wrote This kid is a well known Birmingham athlete so I m struggling to see why the article on him has been deleted It was a misinformed and disrespectful move on your part The article as written is simply about a young athlete who was good at basketball in school but now is enrolled in university just like hundreds of thousands of other people in the world Please read Wikipedia What Wikipedia is not specifically Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information You may also wish to read the guidelines for biography articles If you wish to re create the article please do so but bear in mind that it must be verifiable from reliable sources Regards e