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[edit] April 2007

[edit] 1997 NHL Entry Draft

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[edit] 1993 NHL Entry Draft

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  • Um, my guess is that you are trying to cleanup these lists. It looks like you were adding and linking some players, which is great. Thanks for the help! But it also looks like you had removed some of the players who have not yet gone on to become NHL stars. Please do not do this. The article is for the entire draft list. If a player is not yet notable enough to have an article on WP, either leave it as a redlink or change it back to a non-linked name. Also if you can use an edit summary that would be extremely helpful to other editors. Thanks. — MrDolomite • Talk 14:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • OK, that's fine. But as a hockey buff, these guys that have never really made it in the NHL are not going to make it....especially in the '93 and '95 drafts. If it were the 2005 draft, I'd totally agree with you. But I thought Wikipedia was an information list for more prominent people? All of these old drafts can be found in the Hockey Data Base website. Why do these low-round rejects need to clutter up wiki? I want to know who the *important* players are that have made it from the lower rounds. To mix in the rejects makes it much harder to find that information. But...I'll submit to the wishes of the Wiki gatekeepers! ~Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.139.245 (talk • contribs)
    • That's a good point. I have looked at it this way. The draft article should have everything, obviously a professional sports draft is a WP:NOTABLE event. The *important* players in that draft will go on to have articles and have a wikilink, like Adam Deadmarsh. Players who have not gone on to bigger things will either be a WP:REDLINK or just plain text. I will post a note over on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey page, feel free to join the discussion there. Thanks for the note back and helping to improve WP. Go Wings! — MrDolomite • Talk 03:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
The article pertains to what happened at the draft, not any events that may have occurred afterwards. Revising it to omit draftees that never made it is a serious disservice. However, if you find an individual player article that fails WP:BIO (generally speaking a player that never played professionally), I'd probably support you in an AFD. ccwaters 14:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Hazel Mae. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. KirinX 01:02, 18 April 2007 (UTC)