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The result was redirect to Field hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads#Switzerland. Boldly, as there clearly is no support for keeping this as an article, and since I've just dealt with the rest... (non-admin closure) RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 14:29, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Max Zumstein
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Non-notable athlete who participated in one Olympics and got no medals. Wgullyn ( talk) 14:09, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete There is nothing to indicate this person was notable. Being on a team at the Olympics that does not win a medal is not enough to show that someone is notable. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 14:14, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 14:31, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 14:31, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails WP:GNG. My searches did not turn up any SIGCOV. The best I found is this which simply confirms that he was on the Swiss field hockey team that finished seventh out of nine teams competing at the 1928 Olympics. If researchers later dig up SIGCOV, this could be recreated without the loss of substance (the narrative text here is less than 15 words). Cbl62 ( talk) 15:29, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- NOTE: This article was part of a batch creation of 11 identical, cookie-cutter, one-line sub-stubs on members of the same 1928 Swiss field hockey team that finished seventh of nine teams. All were created within a 13-minute span as follows:
- (1) Charles Piot (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:37),
- (2) Ernst Luchsinger (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:38),
- (3) Édouard Mauris (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:40),
- (4) Fred Jenny (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:41)
- (5) Henri Poncet (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:42),
- (6) Jean-Jacques Auberson (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:42),
- (7) Werner Fehr (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:42),
- (8) Zumstein (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:45);
- (9) Maurice Magnin (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:45),
- (10) Roland Olivier (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:46), and
- (11) Adalbert Koch (created 10 Sep 2019 at 18:50).
- The purported claim to notability is their participation on the 1928 Switzerland men's national field hockey team, and there isn't even an article on that team. All 11 of these sub-stubs should probably be deleted IMO. Cbl62 ( talk) 15:29, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- Comment I agree with User:Cbl62 - none of these articles have any notability and it looks like they were all copy/pasted with only the names changed. Wgullyn ( talk) 20:20, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete all 11. Just clarifying that my original delete vote applies to all 11 of the cookie-cutter articles listed above. Cbl62 ( talk) 20:25, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete all. No evidence of notability demonstrated for any of them. Also, three articles created in the same minute, and 11 in 13 minutes, suggests the creator didn't even check for notability before creating - which unfortunately means we are likely to waste more time debating their deletion than they did creating them. BilledMammal ( talk) 21:38, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
- That's a rather false claim, as they all met the notability requirements when they were created. Unfortunately, those were changed about two years AFTER the pages were created. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 15:23, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
- Redirect to Field hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads per WP:ATD Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 15:23, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
- Redirect Per Lugnuts as a valid redirection target. I would suggest in the future to simply be bold and redirect the page in clear situations like this rather than start an AfD. Smartyllama ( talk) 18:57, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete/redirect all. Redirecting everything on Field hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads and similar pages like Field hockey at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads would be easy to do with AWB. Substubs like these have never served a good purpose, and anyone can still create articles if they care to do so with substantive sources. Reywas92 Talk 19:04, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
- Redirect all to Field hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads#Switzerland like I did with the Austrian squad. Not much more to add here; other similar pages should be boldly redirected. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 04:19, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
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