Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lorenzo Washington
Passes .  He was a key player for Alabama's 2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|2009 national championship team, and he received significant non-trivial coverage in the mainstream media.  College football is one of the top 4 sports in the USA, along with the NFL, MLB, and NBA, in terms of TV exposure, attendance, and merchandising.  The suggestion above that college football players be automatically excluded ignores this and the massive undertaking of the College Football WikiProject to provide solid encyclopedic coverage to this area.  Even under , we acknowledge: "College athletes and coaches are notable if they have been the subject of non-trivial media coverage beyond merely a repeating of their statistics, mentions in game summaries, or other WP:ROUTINE coverage."  Defensive linemen almost never get press coverage, but Lorenzo Washinton has.  Examples of such non-trivial coverage for Washington include the following: http://www.ajc.com/ajccars/content/sports/stories/2008/08/25/alabama_lorenzo_washington.html Atlanta Journal-Constitution feature story.  See also http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/sports/1219396543160450.xml&coll=3, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1005DD0963F412BE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1006316E35B0A1DF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM, http://capstonereport.com/2009/09/01/lorenzo-washington-comments-on-brandon-deaderick/2541/, http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/sports/1254215758160530.xml&coll=3, http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2009/11/25/919882/alabama-linemen-washington-daederick.html, http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100425/NEWS/100429759
— User:Cbl62, 21:25, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:ATH (Wikipedia:Notability)