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The result was no consensus. Star Mississippi 01:45, 23 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Ferenc Velkey

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Olympian who fails GNG. There is an academic of this name who is probably a different person. Avilich ( talk) 00:03, 1 August 2022 (UTC) reply

  • Delete the one source cited seems to be an IMDB-type site that will list any Hungarian athlete, regardless of notability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Partofthemachine ( talkcontribs) 00:25, 1 August 2022 (UTC) reply
  • Comment: The Italian wikipedia equates him with the basketball player who was on the bronze medal winning team at EuroBasket 1946. St Anselm ( talk) 01:32, 1 August 2022 (UTC) reply
The basketball player is called "Velkei", not "Velkey". They may be identical, but of the sources in the Italian page this database shows no awareness of it, and I cannot confirm it with this source either. Avilich ( talk) 13:44, 1 August 2022 (UTC) reply
@ StAnselm and Avilich: It was the same person according to [1] and Olympedia lists both surnames. 🤾‍♂️  Malo95 ( talk) 20:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC) reply
Whatever their identity, sportspeople need to have received significant coverage according to WP:SPORTCRIT#5; participation in notable competitions was deprecated as a criterion of notability in this RfC, and I'm still not seeing how this person meets GNG. Assuming all of your search hits down below are about him, they appear not to meet criterion #4 which requires "reports beyond routine game coverage" and beyond mere passing mentions or team member listings. Avilich ( talk) 21:59, 3 August 2022 (UTC) reply
If you're referring to the search results above, would you mind explaining why they meet criterion #4 of WP:SPORTCRIT which requires "reports beyond routine game coverage" and passing mentions? Your Małolepszy 2013 source also contains no prose and is just a team roster. Avilich ( talk) 18:19, 4 August 2022 (UTC) reply
While it is clear that the majority of the coverage is passing mentions in routine sports coverage, as it is for any sportsperson, it seems very likely (if not almost certain) that many of the hits on Arcanum Digitheca contain significant coverage (e.g. "Velkei Ferenc the famous Hungarian international referee...", "Only of these Velkei Ferenc was an international referee at the age of 50...", "Vel­­key Ferenc today the referee who is Bp Vörös...", "According to Ferenc Velkei, deputy general secretary of Hungarian basketball...", "Ferenc Velkei is a multiple Hungarian national team player...", "...we inquired with Ferenc Velkei, the international commissioner of the MKOSZ...") – unfortunately the snippets are extremely brief (and Google translate does an awful job of translating them) and Arcanum is paywalled. There are even more hits by extending the date window up to the present. For me, it is unreasonable to think there is no significant coverage in these local language sources. wjemather please leave a message... 10:07, 5 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 15:06, 8 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 19:55, 15 August 2022 (UTC) reply

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