Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Nyarko
obviously.  The general notability criterion - non-trivial coverage in multiple media sources - supersedes project guidelines.  Nyarko was the subject of at least three biographical articles external to Virginia Tech and his pro team - http://www.roanoke.com/sports/college/wb/147128 , http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301548.html, http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/sports.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-12-07-0190.html.  This was discussed ad nauseam at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roger Espinoza.   says, "A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject."  All three of these articles obviously meet those requirements.  The fact that he hasn't played in a professional league changes nothing.  We have a http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_NCAA_Athlete&limit=500&from=0 gracious plenty articles on college football and college basketball players and there's no logical reason to invent new standards for college soccer players. By the way, it's not a contested prod - it's an INVALID prod - the article has already survived an AFD and thus a prod is invalid
— User:B, 21:49, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)