Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian Beckstead

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The result was keep. Refs added by Bearcat confirm he meets NGRIDIRON. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:43, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Subject doesn't appear to meet WP:NSPORT or WP:GNG. Adam9007 (talk) 03:28, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 04:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 04:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 04:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 04:56, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment subject meets criteria by WP:NGRIDIRON according to article he played eleven seasons in the CFL. But article lacks significant citations for verification of his eleven seasons on the CFL. Is there even an article here? Someone who played eleven season on the CFL league should have enough citations for a proper article in which case this article should be marked as a draft and improved upon. unless of course the eleven seasons on CFL is fabricated and in that case the article should be deleted. Freetheangels (talk) 08:32, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And yet there is a stunning lack of sources to be found to support this (that I can find.) CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 13:27, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The man played before the Internet became a thing. If there are articles about him they are probably in printed media. There seems to be some trading cards of him floating around [1] and he's also to be found in some stat sites [2] - Dammit_steve (talk) 14:24, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep He clearly meets WP:NGRIDIRON and it's not even close. He played on two Grey Cup champions, was the 1988 CFL all star center, and won the award the same year for being the outstanding offensive lineman in the East Division. It's true that there's not a lot of coverage, but that's always true for offensive linemen--nobody gets less press than they do. Papaursa (talk) 17:05, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The article certainly needs improvement, but playing 11 seasons in the Canadian Football League, including two seasons on the Grey Cup championship team, and winning a freaking award most certainly is a GRIDIRON pass. Note as well that since his career took place mainly in the 1980s and early 1990s, the best sourcing would not be expected to turn up in a simple Google search — it'll require deep database searching for 30-year-old coverage, which is very plainly there as I get 317 hits on ProQuest which do indeed attest to a CFL player of this name. They won't all be spectacularly useful, but I've already added several to this article. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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