Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Young Hank Griffin

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The result was delete. Consensus is he does not meet the general notability guidelines or the boxing specific guidelines kelapstick^(bainuu) 22:53, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Young Hank Griffin

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Non-notable boxer. When I Prod'd this the only reference was an obituary but a couple more were found. Still does not meet WP:NBOX Peter Rehse (talk) 07:47, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. Peter Rehse (talk) 07:47, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It's not exactly a surprise that online references are hard to find for a boxer of the early 1900s. But what we have already meets the requirements of WP:GNG: his death was noted in the mainstream press (see The Afro-American who labels him "one of the country's outstanding boxers in the early part of the century") and his fights received coverage in local but also national press (see the LA Herald reference). Another example of coverage of his fights is [1] and there are at least a few more if one trusts his boxrec.com entry. Pichpich (talk) 13:30, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Fails WP:NBOX and WP:GNG. Only sources are an obituary and routine reporting of fight results. Fought for no major titles and notability isn't obtained by fighting fighters who became notable (WP:NOTINHERITED). Hard to see how he was one of the country's outstanding boxers with a career record of 8 wins in 19 fights.Mdtemp (talk) 18:19, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Doesn't meet NBOX or GNG.204.126.132.231 (talk) 18:34, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete You wouldn't expect much internet coverage, but we do have his boxing record and that definitely doesn't support the claim he was a notable boxer (based on WP:NBOX). Papaursa (talk) 19:06, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Routine coverage for sports athletes is commonplace even if it was in the print media. Since this athlete does not meet WP:NBOX, I don't see a valid rationale for notability inside our guidelines. Mkdw ^talk 17:55, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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