Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Byron L Giles
I'm glad to see the article creator posting here with a keep rationale. This is a first article, drafted at Draft:Byron Giles, and clearly represents good faith and hard work at satisfying our requirements and formatting conventions. Unfortunately, I cannot substantiate any possible claims that would satisfy |the notability requirement. Giles does not appear to have received sufficient coverage in independent reliable sources to satisfy the |general notability guideline. His military service, while clearly commendable, was not distinguished by promotion to a superior rank sufficient to merit an article under the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Notability guide#People|relevant special criteria, and the U.S. Armed Forces classify the Army Meritorious Service Medal as a junior-grade award, so that criterion is not met. I looked for evidence of his having played professional basketball in Mexico as the article states, and all I was able to find was two short videos on his own YouTube channel, apparently taken from a TV broadcast (the first is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITZTM0LE6iI here but that link may have to be removed as a copyright violation). The college affiliations given for two of the players, including Giles, and the "All-Star" legend for one team that I seem to glimpse when the score flashes on the screen suggest that this was an exhibition game against a Mexican pro team. Unless other documentation can be found for his playing organized pro ball, I don't think this rises to that level; in any case, BASKETBALL|the applicable special notability guideline does not appear to list a Mexican league among the basketball leagues where one appearance constitutes sufficient evidence of notability. If this was a tour that was written up in the papers, where the visitors played several games against top teams, or if he was indeed hired by a Mexican pro team, that might be enough for him to squeak by under general notability; but I didn't find any such coverage. What I did find that is not in the article is that he has founded a company, CertificationPoint; https://www.crunchbase.com/person/byron-giles ''CrunchBase'' biography. But that hasn't made much of a splash either. So I'm sorry, I must advocate for the deletion of this biography
— User:Yngvadottir, 21:59, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:GNG||WP:NBASKETBALL (Wikipedia:Notability)