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The result was delete. Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 02:29, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Fred Graham (referee)
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Clearly a fairly prolific referee in tiers 2-4 of England but that alone does not make him notable by default. I did not find any sources exploring him in depth during a search of Google and Gnews. ProQuest was slightly better; I found this and this but, in my view, these articles do not add enough depth to build a biography from. Newspaper articles where a referee is only mentioned briefly because they made a controversial decision is arguably trivial coverage. I do not believe he meets any reasonable interpretation of WP:BASIC/ WP:GNG, the former clearly says trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may not be sufficient to establish notability. Spiderone 20:10, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
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- Delete just because he is prolific at low level of competition does not make him notable. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 20:59, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
- Delete - no evidence of notability, fails GNG. Giant Snowman 22:42, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
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