Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/O. J. Murdock
I looked at the existing news stories in which he's mentioned and IMHO he simply doesn't meet the notability guidelines per  (pro football/NFL players),  (college athletes) or Wikipedia:Notability_(sports)#High_school_and_pre-high_school_athletes|high school athletes. Clearly, he's not notable based on his NFL career alone, particularly because he never played in a game. His college career was not distinguished. And although he was a great high school athlete, even being named Male High School Athlete of the Year by the Tampa Tribune in 2005 http://www.tampatrib.com/MGBOMOVLT8E.html, all the coverage about him was local, which, by rule, must be excluded from consideration when determining notability. If all high school star athletes were by default considered notable, then Wikipedia would continually be adding tens of thousands of articles for all of them. I think perhaps the mere fact that we would stretch to consider Murdock's high school career as a basis for determining notability is the strongest evidence that he is in fact not notable. And it goes without saying, per rule, that the reporting of his unfortunate death, in and of itself, also does not make him notable. I wish he had played in at least one NFL game so that this discussion wouldn't be necessary. --Special:Contributions/76.189.114.163|76.189.114.163
— [[User talk:76.189.114.163|talk]]), 05:13, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NGRIDIRON||WP:NCOLLATH (Wikipedia:Notability)