Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Nesbitt (American football)
Okay, let's establish the Wikipedia policy outlines for discussing this subject.  First, there is no specific notability guideline (SNG) that grants a presumption of notability to American college football coaches; neither  nor  do so.  ikiProject College football, by consensus, supports a presumption of notability for all Division I college football ''head coaches'', but not for ''assistant coaches''.  In the absence of an applicable SNG, a subject must satisfy the general notability guidelines per , which requires that a subject must receive substantial coverage in multiple, independent, published, reliable sources per .  That means team profiles, school newspapers, media guides, etc., while they may be reliable sources, are not ''independent'' sources.  Furthermore, trivial or routine coverage should be discounted for purposes of determining notability per .  For those editors who believe that this article should be kept, it's now time to start linking to those reliable sources they believe demonstrate this subject's notability.  The ''Washington Times'' article linked in the Wikipedia article is clearly trivial; the ''Houston Chronicle'' article while not trivial, is a very slender, single thread on which to hang the subject's notability.  What else do you editors who support keeping this article have
— User:Dirtlawyer1, 15:57, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NSPORTS||WP:NCOLLATH||WP:W||WP:GNG||WP:RS||WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Notability)