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Fails WP:NATHLETE. Ledbetter’s professional career in European basketball was unremarkable and does not seem to have yielded coverage in German and Luxembourgish news. The currently listed sources are his entry in the Glenville State College Hall of Fame showering affiliated praise, a user comment from the DC Basketball Blog (not even the blog post itself), minor discussion of his single-game performance in The Glenville Mercury student newspaper, and a YouTube interview from the channel Alumni4life, a local varsity jackets retailer. While I found two other instances of Ledbetter’s performance reported in the Glenville Mercury, neither instance bothered to mention his season-wide performance, much less broader commentary on him as an athlete/person. Being twice named to the First All-WVIAC Team is impressive, but for a NCAA Division II conference, that achievement seems below WP:NCOLLATH. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 15:58, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Basketball, and Maryland. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:56, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Found some more coverage at [[1]], [[2]], [[3]], and [[4]]. Let’srun (talk) 19:10, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Appreciate the identification of additional sources! I think the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Indiana Gazette coverage when Ledbetter was playing in their respective areas is below the WP:NCOLLATH criterion of gaining “national media attention as an individual”. Similarly, the Bedford County Press and Everett Press article is only a local newspaper reporting Saint Francis University’s pride at recruiting Ledbetter. The Evening Sun article on Ledbetter’s threat to not play at Crossland High School if transferred from Largo High School as part of D.C.’s racial integration is pretty interesting, though that coverage is not significant on him, nor did he follow through on that threat. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 19:40, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]