Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rit Harrison (2nd nomination)

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Seems like WP:1E. Most mentions I've seen are trivial/statistics. Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 19:58, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 19:58, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and New York. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:02, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
• Keep - possibly borderline, but I disagree that the sourcing is entirely trivial; the two bios that I can access in Google Books are short but in my opinion do provide WP:SIGCOV. If anyone happens to have access to the Arcidiacono book, it would be helpful to know if there is more information on page 211 as the index indicates. Hatman31 (he/him · talk · contribs) 22:31, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
• :I've requested a scan of it from NYPL. No clue how long it'll take, though- hopefully I'll get it in a reasonable amount of time. Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 17:14, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
• ::Got the scan. There was two pages that mentioned Harrison. The first was one sentence among a list of other substitute short-term players for the team:

  The next short-term substitute to don a New Haven uniform was Rit Harrison, who played his only major league game on May 20 against the Athletics.(Arcidiacono 2009, p. 125)

• ::The second one was a small chunk of text among a list of what appears to be every player they had during the time period:

  Washington Ritter "Rit" Harrison- Harrison was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and was most likely playing with the Bridgeport TBs when called to serve as a replacement player for New Haven on May 20, 1875. He managed two hits, including a double, in four trips to the plate. Harrison died in Bridgeport on November 7, 1888.(Arcidiacono 2009, p. 211)

• ::Feel free to make of this what you will. Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 16:27, 2 October 2024 (UTC) Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 16:27, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
• :::I appreciate that you made the effort to find that! It's admittedly too short to add much to the case for notability. Still, my opinion is that there's just enough information between the three books cited to justify a standalone page for this ballplayer. Hatman31 (he/him · talk · contribs) 19:49, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. Hatman31 (he/him · talk · contribs) 22:40, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
• weak keep: He's got a paragraph here [https://books.google.ca/books?id=-FXR31rzwqMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA68&dq=%22Rit%20Harrison%22%20baseball&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=%22Rit%20Harrison%22%20baseball&f=false] and [https://books.google.ca/books?id=axNYROJTahwC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA125&dq=%22Rit%20Harrison%22%20baseball&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q=%22Rit%20Harrison%22%20baseball&f=false], but nothing in SABR [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/rit-harrison/]. That's more biographical info than a lot of the ones I've seen here. Oaktree b (talk) 23:47, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
• Keep - I am satisfied that the sourcing that is readily available is adequate for someone who died more than a century before the internet. Rlendog (talk) 17:19, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
• :Could you elaborate a bit on what you meant by readily available? Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 17:57, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
• ::What about the phrase "readily available" do you not understand? Rlendog (talk) 23:37, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
• :::What is your definition of readily available, for instance? Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 11:14, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

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