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Keep Being unrefed does not equal being non-notable. Individual should easily pass the football notability. And see
WP:BEFORE too. LugnutsDick Laurent is dead 17:13, 8 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete I've now added some stats listings which show subject meets
WP:NFOOTY. But there's no evidence of the "professionalism" which this woolly and hare-brained guideline relies upon. Also a distance short of
WP:GNG.
Bring back Regi Blinker (
talk) 22:29, 9 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Care to make a
WP:GNG-based argument? Sure there's listings in dusty stats compendiums, but where's the
coverage? Where's the evidence of (that wikipedia-specific concept) "fully-professionalism"?
Bring back Regi Blinker (
talk) 00:35, 10 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Ah, welcome back Clavdia; your comments and attitude betray your former identity. Seeing as this is a player who played in the 1940s and 1950s and died before the internet age, the coverage is presumably in the print media of the era, but sadly this isn't easily available online unless you have access to the archives. Thankfully it appears
Struway2 may have access, as he's added some coverage from the
Daily Mirror. It's also disappointing (although not at all suprising) to see you bringing up the "wikipedia-specific concept" canard again. You were party to plenty of discussions in which it was pointed out that this is not the case, but for the benefit of the closing admin, here are just a few of the multitude of BBC Sport stories that reference this:
Keep per
WP:NFOOTY and
Number 57's evidence. A league player of that pedigree would easily meet GNG today, and I'm sure did in the print sources of the day. —
Amakuru (
talk) 12:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep Clearly passes
WP:NFOOTBALL, by a country mile. What is the project to gain by deleting articles that meet our notability requirements?
Mattythewhite (
talk) 12:47, 10 April 2016 (UTC)reply
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GiantSnowman 16:23, 10 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep - over 300 appearances in the Football League? Clearly meets
WP:NFOOTBALL.
GiantSnowman 16:24, 10 April 2016 (UTC)reply
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