Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Watts
There are suggestions above that a player has to have received non-trivial coverage in ''national'' media outlets before such coverage can count.  That was never the agreed purpose of the language in .  A college athlete receiving such coverage in the national media is presumed to be notable.  However, ''national'' media coverage is not, and never has been, a requirement for .  Many college athletes meet GNG because they have received significant non-trivial coverage in regional media and/or important daily newspapers.  While there is an understandable tendency to discount coverage of a hometown athlete in a small-town newspaper, that rationale should not cause us to discount coverage in major metropolitan newspapers (e.g., ''The Denver Post'', ''The Arizona Republic'', Minneapolis ''Star Tribune'', ''The Plain Dealer'', ''Detroit Free Press'', ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'') that serve entire states or areas with populations larger than many countries.  In this case, North Carolina is the 10th most populous state in the US and has a population of 9.5 million -- larger than most countries, including Sweden, Israel, Switzerland and Libya.  (See List of countries by population.)  There is not a higher notability threshhold under  for a person from Sweden than there is for a person from North Carolina.  The major metropolitan newspapers serving North Carolina are ''The News and Observer'' and ''The Charlotte Observer''.  (See List of newspapers in the United States by circulation.)  Before voting, I would like to see whether there has been significant coverage of Watts in those types of outlets
— User:Cbl62, 16:29, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ATH||WP:GNG||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)