Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Odom (baseball)

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Non-notable minor league baseball player. His "notability" stems from one event, and according to WP:ONEEVENT, "If the event is highly significant...a separate article is generally appropriate." The event he was involved in is hardly significant. Alex (talk) 13:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 19:57, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 19:57, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Comment - I don't think WP:ONEEVENT really applies here, since the BLP policy, WP:BLP1E states " If reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event, and if that person otherwise remains, and is likely to remain, a low-profile individual, we should generally avoid having an article on them." Since reliable sources would have covered a minor league baseball player in the context of the games he played, even those are not in themselves sufficient to meet notability guidelines, they do argue against WP:ONEEVENT for the larger event for which he received coverage. That said, I don't see a particularly compelling need to have an article about this minor league player, and thus remain neutral as to keeping or deleting. Rlendog (talk) 00:43, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Keep - I am guessing when other users are talking about WP:ONEEVENT, they are referring to the trade for bats. I think the "John Odom story" as it were is more complex - his drug use and death speculated to have resulted from the fallout of the trade, and the delay in ID'ing him after his death make the story bigger, so to speak. The coverage for Odom is extensive (meets WP:GNG and covers more than just the trade), in addition to the articles cited in the article already: [http://www.aolnews.com/2009/03/04/john-odom-once-traded-for-bats-dies/ AOL.com], [http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/29495228/ MSNBC.com], [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2008809605_batman04.html Seattle Times], [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357927,00.html Fox News], [http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/billy-byler/2008-06-02/former-greenjacket-john-odom-and-10-bats-headed-ripleys Augusta Chronicle (possibly cited already)], [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1138939/index.htm Sports Illustrated]. Canada Hky (talk) 04:21, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

• Keep I agree with Canada. This is more than just a guy traded for bats. There is enough of a story here that I think he meets GNG. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:33, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

• Keep, I'm pretty strict about minor leaguers, but in this case he clearly passes GNG. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 22:34, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

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