Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Donovan
A really ''rotten'' example of , actually.  Never mind just hockey, where two hundred players are drafted a season.  How about baseball, where a couple ''thousand'' players are drafted a season?   exists for a reason, and "imminently going to" compete as a pro does not mean he will.  Hockey history is peppered with promising 18 year old 4th round draftees who petered out in juniors or college and never approached pro hockey; just to take a random year as example, no fewer than five 4th rounders in the 1998 entry draft never played pro hockey.  No doubt his mother was indeed proud to see her boy compete in red, white and blue, but that's a poor reason to have a Wikipedia article.  (By the bye, Tan, what led you to claim that Donovan was on a pro roster in the edit summaries
— User:RGTraynor, 18:26, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:IAR||WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)