Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald R. Mitchell
American Football is the top level of his sport, and he has played a few seasons. However, as I've been led to believe, Wikipedia's general notability criteria () usually supersedes specific notability criteria within genres. What I mean is, a US football player is notable only if he's been the subject of third-party non-trivial coverage. I've even had it explained to me recently (in AfD) that the prevailing opinion is that simple coverage is not sufficient - there must be third-party assertion of notability, such that we could assume that (say) 10 years from now this person will still be considered notable. And as well, note that  is only a guideline, not policy - "a fair test", as it says. So, is there any proof that he's not just a football player (of which each team carries what, 70?), but that he's a '''notable''' one
— User:AllGloryToTheHypnotoad, 16:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)