Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rasheed Sulaimon (2nd nomination)
This is a closer call than most basketball-related AfD entries, but here's why my !vote is for delete: Perusing the sources on his article, most of them are directly off of Duke's athletic website or some derivative Duke fanboy website (failing independent coverage). Looking at the rosters of some top tier national high school all-star games, it doesn't go into any coverage on him other than basic vitals (name, age, height, weight, school, position etc.). The fact that he was selected to play in any of these games does ''not'' bestow ''inherent'' notability. Furthermore, the 3- or 4-sentence write-ups about each participant is a decent start but just not nearly enough to satisfy GNG, let alone when it comes to a high school player (i.e. high school players need to be more carefully scrutinized since their futures are so much more up in the air than even college athletes' are). Once I got through the rest of the listed sources it became clear that they are just athlete profiles, not articles.My next step was to Google him. Everything I found on the first 3 pages of results led to either blogs, recruiting websites (whose inherent flaws as sources were pointed out by Rikster) or otherwise |unreliable sources for various other reasons. Is Rasheed Sulaimon notable? Well, he has certainly garnered a lot more attention than 99.9% of high school basketball players, but that is not a criterion for notability and neither is Ghits, which User:BasketballNeverStops tried to argue. He may become notable a year from now, but to !vote keep on the presumption of his ''future'' notability is clearly |crystal-balling. Great high school player? You bet. Notable per Wikipedia standards at the moment? No
— User:Jrcla2, 15:42, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)