Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whitey Ritterson

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The result was keep. MBisanz ^talk 01:15, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Whitey Ritterson

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non-notable former baseball player. as always, a mention in The Rank and File, but sorrowfully little else. Therapyisgood (talk) 21:01, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete We do not have enough cases of in-depth coverage to justify this article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:48, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep.. played in 16 games in Major League Baseball in the first year the National League existed... nominator seems to have a bias against 19th century figures for whom modern day sources are harder to come by. Spanneraol (talk) 19:09, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Played basically a season in the MLB. The Rank and File has information which can be included. Here is a death notice, though it can't really be considered significant. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 02:38, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per NBASE. Rlendog (talk) 01:18, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - general notability guidelines are not always applicable, and we must consider that 19th century sources may have little significant coverage accessible through a google search due to the age. Per
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Weak keep: 16 games is well beyond the point where we can consider that the player probably has sources. Curbon7 (talk) 06:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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