Deletion of Robert Felton

Comment: correct me if I am wrong, but there are a lot of sources in ({{findsources|Robert Felton}}) news. Maybe a different person. Thank you nominator for taking the time to try to save this article first, as per  I  strongly respect that
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: Using http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Robert+Felton%22+Buffalo&btnG=Search&um=1&scoring=a this Google News Archive search and http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Robert+Felton%22+Arkansas&scoring=a&um=1&sa=N&start=10 this one, I was able to find a number of |reliable sources about the subject. http://www.thestar.com/article/420806 This article from the ''Toronto Star'' provides information about him being signed by the Buffalo Bills. Furthermore, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=12083DCB5A06FAA8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM this article from ''The Buffalo News'' and http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=120741959D476450&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM this article from ''The Buffalo News'' provide more coverage about him. There are also more reliable sources that cover his college years. http://www.thecabin.net/stories/122407/spo_1224070019.shtml This article from ''Log Cabin Democrat'' discusses Felton's sense of humor and his impact on the Arkansas Razorbacks football|University of Arkansas football team. There is also http://arkansas.scout.com/2/314955.html this article from ''The Morning News/Razorback Central'' which discusses his freshman year at the University of Arkansas. The ample coverage in reliable sources means that Robert Felton passes  and this article should be kept
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:BIO)

Comment: I came across something else that might be relevant to this discussion.   states that local newspapers covering college athletes, even though they are reliable sources, do not neccesarily help to determine the notability of a college athlete.  "It has already been accepted that professional athletes, regardless of their accomplishments in their field, may have articles. But local newspapers also cover high school and college athletes. In every city and town, there are several high schools and colleges and papers that cover them. So inevitably, these athletes will receive coverage."  Additionally  "is not a policy, but may be consulted for assistance during and AfD discussion."  The ''Toronto Star'' and ''Buffalo News'' articles certainly fall outside this.  They, however, only commented on him because he was signed to the Bills.  Whether this is or isn't enough for him to be notable seems like a very fine line to me - just like whether or not he is still a professional athlete because he was signed even though he didn't play a single actual game.  Also my former statement about him not "standing out" was poor wording on my part.  Notability is not subjective.  I'm just still not totally convinced the he is (or perhaps isn't) notable
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill (WP:MILL||WP:MILL)

Comment: I'm on the fence, in part as I know precious little about American football, okay, about any footie ball. Most pro athletes have high-profile careers if only because they were famous and after they retire from their sport they are a famous person doing some other job ala - "former pro footballer now sells insurance." This only gives a sentence for our purposes here but it's worth stating; many pro-athletes are a lot more visible than that. Cunard, or someone?, could you have a turn at sorting through http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=football&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=robert+felton&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_user_ldate=&as_user_hdate=&lr=&as_src=-newswire+-wire+-presswire+-pr+-press+-release+-wikipedia&as_price=p0&as_scoring=a the 160 or so news hits to see if any of these are for this Robert Felton? http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=football&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=robert+felton&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_user_ldate=&as_user_hdate=&lr=&as_src=-newswire+-wire+-presswire+-pr+-press+-release+-wikipedia&as_price=p1&as_scoring=a these 107 are listed as having no fee so might be a better place to start. If valid ones can be added to the article or at least listed here it may help folks see that there likely is or is not a  threshold being met
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)