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The result was delete.
Black Kite 00:05, 7 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete - He has played professional football (R&D are a professional club) but has not played in a fully-professional league (Conference National is semi-professional). Article fails the
WP:ATHLETE guideline, and seems to fail
notability.
Rambo'sRevenge(How am I doing?) 15:30, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Sam Smith has, admitedly, not played in a fully-professional league. Apologies - I was not aware of that necessity. However, "notability" is subjective - he has had a succesful start to his career (7 goals thus far in his first full professional season) including a goal in the Rushden-Kettering derby (all the more notable seeing as Smith is - supposedly - a Kettering fan). However, on the whole, as the author of this article, I'm probably in the wrong.
That'sWhatIWould'veDone (
talk) 20:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment - He wouldn't have to meet
WP:ATHLETE if he meets
WP:N. Do these sources add up the notability? (rather trivial)
[1],
[2],
[3],
[4],
[5]; (photo caption)
[6]; (more than trivial, less than exclusive)
[7] —LinguistAtLarge •
Talk 22:38, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete. Conference National level (5th tier) is far too low down in the league system for a player to gain notability. Some local press mentions from sports matches are generated as pointed out by LinguistAtLarge, but it is not the kind of thing which can generate notability by virtue of the coverage alone. If there were an article profiling Mr. Smith the case may have been different.
Sjakkalle(Check!) 08:18, 3 April 2009 (UTC)reply
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