Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mickey Morandini

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The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:54, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mickey Morandini

While turning a unassited triple play is nice, i dont think it is worthy of an article in wikipedia. bakuzjw (aka 578) 00:20, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Expanded article. Substantial major league career, named an All-Star; easily merits an article. MisfitToys 03:11, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. I never saw him play much, but anyone who followed baseball in the 1990s at least heard of him. We have articles on players who are much more obscure than Mickey Morandini. I don't think we should delete those and we definitely shouldn't delete this one. I see that six articles link to it anyway, so if it were to be deleted, it would just be a matter of time before it was created again. Why waste the effort? Dave Farquhar 05:52, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Comment: This was apparently never listed on vfd, so I'm putting it on today's page. —Korath (Talk) 02:09, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
keep! Unassisted triple play is very notable. It's only been done about ten times in Major League Baseball. Also, yeah, we have articles on lots of other players. FreplySpang (talk) 02:50, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete, under the bar of notability. Megan1967 07:35, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Keep any and all professional sportspeople. Xezbeth 07:37, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
Keep; most baseball fans have at least heard of him; he did have a few notable career accomplishments; and Wikipedia is not paper. BTW, I'm getting a bit concerned about the way that voting breaks down in VfD. Megan1967, when was the last time you voted to keep an article on VfD? Kappa, when was the last time you voted to delete one? Are there people who go through and just answer "keep" or "delete" on everything? Firebug 09:49, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Well if someone is significantly more liberal than the Vfd average, most of their "delete" votes on "notability" issues will be superfluous, even if they agree. I don't need to vote delete when there's obviously a consensus to do so, that just clogs up the system. (Likewise with less-liberal voters). If I'm the first person around I sometimes vote delete, e.g. Halover. The problem is that we all agree people need some notability, but not how much. Incidentally I've seen Megan1967 make many significant "keep" votes. Kappa 10:49, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  - While there are occasionally people who always vote the same without any explanation (recently-banned Recycling Troll comes to mind), Kappa and Megan certainly aren't among them. Radiant_* 11:16, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
    - Agreed. And to be fair, although I disagree with both of them much of the time, I have seen Megan1967 vote keep on a few things, and Kappa vote to merge material on occasion. Meelar (talk) 19:33, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
      - Wow I'm flattered by all the support. Thanks. Megan1967 09:42, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Keep, concurring with Firebug. Kappa 10:49, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Keep--even players that don't turn an unassisted triple play and make the all-star team are notable. Meelar (talk) 16:41, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
Major leaguer? All-star? Unassisted triple play?! Strong KEEP of course. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:10, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
Keep I was not aware that he was an All Star, sorry for the mistake. bakuzjw (aka 578) 19:31, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Keep based on All-Star selection and unassisted triple play. Strongly disagree with Xezbeth and Meelar, though: I don't think WP should attempt to list every player in every major league in every sport in every nation with leagues big enough to get attention. Otherwise I'll have to do an article on my buddy Ron Shephard because he once ran one NASCAR Winston Cup race. 205.247.102.130 20:32, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Above vote was mine, not logged in. Barno 20:33, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Keep, whether he made a triple play or not, he's at least as notable as all of the Malian soccer players we have articles on. Rick K 00:11, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. All Star player who played ten years of major league baseball and played in the Phillies 1993 World Series side. Capitalistroadster 00:19, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Keep. He is on the low end of notability when it comes to baseball players, but he still passes the bar by a fairly comfortable margin. Indrian 06:54, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
Keep, seems notable enough. Wmahan . 20:42, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)
Delete FroggyMoore 23:18, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Froggy has gone on a spree of voting "Keep" on clear vanity articles and "Delete" on articles with majority Keep votes. Seems suspicious to me. Rick K 22:42, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

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