Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Richmond (American football)
One cannot fail . One can be subject to the exemption for not passing the GNG, but as the Additional criteria says (to which ATH is a part of) "Failure to meet these criteria is not conclusive proof that a subject should not be included." I.e., you can't "fail" it. And did anyone (especially the nominator as the Wikipedia:Guide to deletion instructs) check for sources to see if this person passes  in general? A http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22David+Richmond%22+%22san+jose%22+football+source:%22-newswire%22+source:%22-wire%22+source:%22-presswire%22+source:%22-PR%22+source:%22-press%22+source:%22-release%22+source:%22-wikipedia%22+-leeds&scoring=a&sa=N&start=0 fairly narrow search comes up with 71 news hits, and at least http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-169258179/spartans-richmond-ready-build.html this article (going by the free preview) seems to provide some decent coverage. Changing the search term to eliminate San Jose would likely yield more results from his JC and HS days. Maybe not enough, but if no one searches then it is hard to justify deletion via the deletion policy of either "Articles for which all attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed" or "Articles whose '''subjects''' fail to meet the relevant notability guideline". (emphasis mine to underscore that we only delete topics/subjects due to those topics failing the guideline and not articles, just because the articles fail to properly demonstrate their notability
— User:Aboutmovies, 07:47, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ATH||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)