Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Edward Miller
For some reason, I thought the "highest level of amateur athletics" thing didn't apply to a sport played professionally at a higher level, but it looks like I was mistaken. Still, although he would get in if we simply go by the letter of WP:ATHLETE, he doesn't come close to meeting the general  (the only thing that sets him apart from other players, beyond membership on the USC football team is this piece of trivia, ''"Although Miller's college career was hampered by back injuries, Jimmy appeared in over two dozen college football games and is the only tight end on the 2008 USC Trojans football team to have caught a touchdown pass thrown by Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart"'').  Now, there are 120 FBS schools, each with 100+ players, including walk-ons. That's 12,000 players every year, and 3,000 each class. So over the course of history, we literally have hundreds of thousands of athletes, the vast majority of whom do not meet , meet WP:ATHLETE even though their articles will never expand beyond stub level and will not have any significant, non-trivial, independent coverage. That seems pretty indiscriminate to me.  Somehow, I think the amateur portion of WP:ATHLETE wasn't meant for cases like this
— User:Mosmof, 14:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)