Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dez Bryant
The guidelines do not need to be changed they just need to be read correctly. The criteria set forth in the subject-specific notability guidelines are subordinate to the Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline|general notability standard, as is implicitly noted by duplication of the general standard in the subject-specific guidelines themselves (here, see #Basic criteria). Accordingly, meeting or not meeting  is entirely immaterial. The nominator should also note the many places in guideline and policy where those taking articles to AfD are advised to do at least a perfunctory search first to check whether the subject is patently not a valid candidate (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Before nominating an AfD|here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ATHLETE#cite_note-note10-9 here and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N#cite_note-8 here among others). Per any number of easily accomplished searches, it is shown that the subject has received significant coverage in multiple, independent reliable sources (and does so in spades), thus meeting the letter of Wikipedia's general notability standards. See, e.g. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=iaW&resnum=0&um=1&tab=wn&nolr=1&q=%22Dez+Bryant%22+%22college+football%22&btnG=Search+News this Google News search; http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=%22Dez+Bryant%22+%22college+football%22&srchst=cse 120 New York Times articles. This is about as conclusive as notability gets
— User:Fuhghettaboutit, 15:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:ATHLETE (Wikipedia:Notability)