Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Kassel
The sources provided by Nfitz establish that Matt Kassel passes  / . Kessel fails  but this does not matter when he passes . As {{user|Davewild}} http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FBob_Poe&action=historysubmit&diff=328242624&oldid=328237546 wrote at another AfD, "The general notability guideline supersedes any subject specific guidelines." Wikipedia:Notability (people) (which encompasses ) says that "A person is presumed notable if he or she has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject." Kassel has clearly received this coverage.See http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=530064&root=mls&cc=5901 this article from ESPN (titled ''Youth product Kassel looks to have bright prospects''; this article is over 10 paragraphs long), http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082803311.html this article from the ''Washington Post'' (titled ''Recruit Kassel Joins the Terps, At Least for Now''; this article is also over 10 paragraphs long), and http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:vQ849W0uu-QJ:www.nypost.com/p/blogs/soccerblog/item_6CWKcBlWbPWYKpa2OcjLbO+%22Matt+Kassel%22+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&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us this article from the ''New York Post'' (titled ''RBNY's Matt Kassel staying at Maryland''; this article is six paragraphs long). Notability is fully established due to the extent of coverage
— User:Cunard, 22:44, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:BIO||WP:ATHLETE||WP:GNG||WP:ATHLETE (Wikipedia:Notability)