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Slovak footballer with
21 minutes in the highest Slovak league. There is no longer a free pass for every player who has featured in less than one match. My search for sources found nothing except for passing mentions and primary sources.
Geschichte (
talk) 11:16, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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GiantSnowman 17:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me.
GiantSnowman 17:54, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Weak delete—Has something of a track record with professional teams while still a young player. Too old for
WP:TOOSOON, I admit, but I've seen some precedent lately, especially for English players, to suggest that this level of professional experience, even at the second-tier level is sufficient to vote keep.
Anwegmann (
talk) 22:33, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Slovak footballer with
33 minutes in the highest Slovak league. There is no longer a free pass for every player who has featured in less than one match. My search for sources found nothing except for passing mentions, match reports and primary sources, including his own agency.
Geschichte (
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GiantSnowman 17:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me.
GiantSnowman 17:54, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Weak keep based on
precedent seemingly established here. Although I disagree with this precedent, if three appearances in two seasons in the English fourth-tier and 14 appearances in the English fifth and sixth tiers with some local coverage is enough, 25 appearances in the Slovakian second and third tiers and one appearance in the Slovakian top-tier with a smattering references is also enough.
Anwegmann (
talk) 22:42, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Slovak footballer with
0 minutes (i.e. one substitution in extra time) in the highest Slovak league. Previously kept for meeting a guideline that doesn't exist anymore. There is no longer a free pass for every player who has featured in less than one match. My search for sources found nothing except for passing mentions. Career is no longer ongoing either. There are some unrelated people by the same name.
Geschichte (
talk) 11:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Strong delete – With only primary sources listed, this article is absolutely unacceptable!
⋆。˚꒰ঌClara A. Djalim໒꒱˚。⋆ 09:08, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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GiantSnowman 17:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me.
GiantSnowman 17:55, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
This is another long-unsourced article of a Slovak men's footballer named Tomáš, whose career is mostly confined to clubs from lower league football clubs as well, before disappearing in 2011. I have searched on Google using a few keywords (e.g. "Tomáš Ďurica futbolista" and "Tomáš Ďurica Žilina"), but couldn't find any in-depth coverage of him that would meet
WP:GNG. Best secondary sources I found were interviews from
2003,
2022, and
2023 – the latter two of which are paywalled.
Clara A. Djalim (
talk) 11:45, 1 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment. "mostly confined to clubs from lower league football" refers to the swansong of his career. The main part of his career took place until 2004 and included a spell in Russia. Seems notable, but it's not that easy finding good stuff. I found some of the same sources you did:
[1][2][3][4] A search in Russian would be for Томаш Дюрица.
Geschichte (
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GiantSnowman 14:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep per sources above which show notability.
GiantSnowman 14:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep per sources above.--
Ortizesp (
talk) 12:36, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Slovakia at the 2022 Winter Olympics#Luge as ATD because I could not find enough in-depth coverage for this athlete to meet
WP:GNG. I only found
SME while the rest are brief mentions and profile database sources, both types of which are not independent. He was not even in the top three (?) luge winners of mentioned tournament. This might be
WP:TOOSOON situation.
⋆。˚꒰ঌClara A. Djalim໒꒱˚。⋆ 10:13, 22 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment Also incoming links from multiple EUropean Championships and multiple World Championships.
Geschichte (
talk) 14:33, 22 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Hey man im josh (
talk) 12:20, 29 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Weak keep. My last comment was made quite quickly, and now I had the chance to elaborate more. He participated in the following European Championships: 2021, 2022, 2023 and the following World Championships: 2021, 2023, 2024. In addition, he won a gold medal at the
2022 FIL Junior European Luge Championships which gained some attention for being Slovakia's first gold medal in that championship. None of these achievements would hold enough weight on their own, but together I think they just might do. Then there are the sources.
[5][6][7][8] (less)
[9] (more passing)
[10]. These were some of them, partly from a news agency (and I don't understand Slovak by any means), but at least they give some biographical overview.
Geschichte (
talk) 21:51, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Source #1 can't be accessed at the moment; Source #2 and #3 are duplicated from the SME one I mentioned; Source #6 looks like a blogspot. I also was wondering if you actually use a translator or try to avoid it.
⋆。˚꒰ঌClara A. Djalim໒꒱˚。⋆ 09:07, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
With only primary sources listed, this article clearly fails
WP:NBOX and
WP:GNG. My Google searches came up with
Peter Baláž (Esperantist) and a
motorcycle driver, both of which are Slovak, but nothing about a boxer with the same birth name. I can't see this article lasting longer-term on Wikipedia.
Clara A. Djalim (
talk) 09:35, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep, subject was the starring role in a movie about himself (
Goat (2015 film)), and his involvement was covered by such outlets as The Hollywood Reporter[11]. I'm thankful for the nomination because it gives us a chance to improve the article, although I think the nominator did not do
WP:BEFORE by looking up the actor's name with the movie's name (Koza) and addressing those sources. --
Habst (
talk) 12:16, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I AM the nominator. Sure, not everyone has the same Google search results.
Clara A. Djalim (
talk) 10:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep, per the excellent find by Habst. A movie about the subject!
BeanieFan11 (
talk) 15:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment Just to be clear, the movie is fiction, about a fictional Olympic champion. This article is about a fighter who badly lost his only Olympic fight in the round of 32. Boxrec shows he won 3 of his 57 pro fights.
[12] He's not notable as a boxer, but feel free to debate his notability as an actor.
Papaursa (
talk) 04:06, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
StarMississippi 01:28, 29 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete. Does not meet
WP:GNG,
WP:NBOX,
WP:NOLY as a non-medaling Olympian, or
WP:NACTOR, having only starred in one film. As Papaursa noted, the film is not about him.
XabqEfdg (
talk) 02:37, 1 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge and redirect to the film. The film is certainly not about "him". Hollywood Reporter asserts that the main character is a "character very close to" Baláž (my emphasis). That's not a completely
reliable claim, as the character is a "Olympic boxing champion", which in reality is quite far from Baláž, as described by Papaursa. Still, he is mentioned in the film article, and the film article really needs to be fleshed out, so Baláž' background, again as summarized by Papaursa, can be mentioned there.
Geschichte (
talk) 21:31, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply