Deletion of Sean Williams (basketball, born 1988)

Comment: Flunks .  Isn't even notable on the Syracuse team, where he can't crack the rotation on a 16-man roster, and the Syracuse team doesn't play at the "highest level."  It's no more "POV" to say he doesn't meet WP:N standards than any of the dozens of deletions made every day.  Are we going to start including people cut from NFL training camp before they see a single snap because it's the POV judgment of the coach that the player isn't good enough for the NFL?  Is someone really going to want to use Wikipedia to look up the third-string center on Syracuse ten years from now?  Which editor is going to do the research to include the last forty third-string Syracuse centers, not to mention the last 4000 Division I third-string centers
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ATHLETE)

Comment: I think NCAA Division I players are notable in general, but, as with other subjects, articles can only be written on those for whom there is non-trivial coverage in multiple third-party sources; otherwise, it's impossible to write a |verifiable article. I think this particular player is on the borderline for there being enough sources to write at least a short article, based on a http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22sean+williams%22+syracuse&btnG=Search+Archives quick search
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: Actually, NO.  Nobody is entitled to his own article simply because he plays on a college basketball team, even if it's an elite program like Syracuse.  There are more than 250 NCAA Division I men's basketball teams, each with a dozen players and nothing that gives each player a no-questions-asked, beyond-debate, "right" to an article.   gives an inherent notability to athletes playing on a "fully" ''professional'' team (such that if Williams plays even one game in the NBA someday, he would be entitled), but there is no similar provision for athletes on a college team.  Some have made the argument that the "highest level of amateur competition" clause means that anyone on a team that plays at the highest amateur level would get a bye, but it's not been successful so far in debates over college football players.  Sean Williams, just like the other 12 persons listed on the current Orangemen template, has to establish his notability just like anyone else.  He's not prohibited from showing that he is notable enough for an article, but he most certainly is not ''entitled'' to one
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ATHLETE)