Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Bannon

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 06:38, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Bannon

Listed as non-notable CSD, but playing college basketball is enough of an assertion of notability for it to be a CSD. Listing here, no vote. — Phil Welch 21:05, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: I don't think that playing college basketball alone is an assertion of notability. Most professions alone don't establish a claim of notability, and non-professional sports are at an even lower level. An assertion of notability would be winning a notable award (voted a College All-American, for instance), or being a member of a national championship team. 165.189.91.148 22:29, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete agreed that former college football player should not be considered assertion of notability; this is assertion of pastime. jnothman ^talk 00:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. non-notable player. *drew 01:44, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, college basketball players are of interest to large numbers of people. Kappa 01:57, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I can only verify that a Charles O'Bannon played for UCLA who had a brother Ed, which would (a) be notable and (b) be completely contrary to most of the supposed facts in this stub. — Phil Welch 02:53, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No indication of notability. Brother is the professional athlete, not subject. ERcheck 05:42, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and rewrite. Charles was actually a professional basketball player, but his career in the NBA and the US was short-lived. He spent the vast majority of his career overseas. Not only that, but he went to UCLA, not Michigan where he was a crucial member of the NCAA title-winning team in 1995. Plus, the information on Ed O'Bannon is wrong too (I should know, I wrote most of the Ed-O article). I can probably take a stab at rewriting it later. I still have my Sports Illustrated collector's issue of the UCLA title. --howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 20:25, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, I just did a quickie Google search and found no evidence of Charles dropping the "O" from his name. This article as it's written is completely bogus. Charles is alive and well and playing in Japan for Toyota Alvark. He's good enough for at least a stub, but at Charles O'Bannon. --howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 20:34, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Wouldn't that be a Move or Move and Kelete? — Phil Welch 21:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
    • No, because nobody searching for Charles O'Bannon would use the name Charles Bannon (who was a real person -- the last person lynched in North Dakota). So deletion of this is warranted with a new article started in the correct location for Charles-O. And besides, the article as it stands is totally bogus anyway so not worth keeping. --howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 22:23, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.