Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Looney (offensive lineman)
Delete. Being on a pre-season NFL roster doesn't confer automatic notability.  And my searches in Google news archive don't turn up much in the way of significant, non-trivial coverage on this Joe Looney (as opposed to the 1960s football player of the same name).  There's http://bayarea.sbnation.com/san-francisco-49ers/2012/4/29/2985448/nfl-draft-2012-jim-harbaugh-comments-quotes-joe-looney-darius-fleming this, but SB Nation appears to be a blog site, and I'm not sure whether or not it can be considered a reliable source.  Even if it is reliable, I don't think that an isolated, one-paragraph write-up in a blog is enough to satisfy .  Looney may end up playing for the 49ers (in which case the article can be re-created), but he currently falls victim to the fact that dollegiate offensive linemen don't get a lot of press.  Whether that's fair or unfair, it's the reality -- press coverage is what establishes notability for college football players under , and that coverage tends to be focused on the glamor positions like QB, RB, WR, CB etc.  Absent more coverage than this, I don't think he passes muster.  Willing to reconsider if additional coverage can be found
— User:Cbl62, 05:50, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)