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The result was Keep ( non-admin closure). Sir Sputnik ( talk) 00:18, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Blažo Bulatović
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Article's subject fails to meet WP:GNG. A search on GoogleNews produces no hits, a regular Google search shows pages of statistics but no substantive coverage. I have verified that there are no articles on him in either the Serbian or Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias. While he may appear to meet WP:NSPORT, he does not meet the the more-fundamental requirements of WP:GNG. KDS4444 Talk 09:15, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Keep, subject meets WP:FOOTYN (played for FK BSK Borča in Serbian SuperLiga [1]) and WP:GNG, see for example this ( Novosti a.d.). -- Vejvančický ( talk / contribs) 09:28, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 19:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Serbia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 00:20, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 00:20, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
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- Keep - numerous appearances in a fully-professional league, as confirmed by reliable sources, so this player meets WP:NFOOTBALL. Needs improving, not deleting, to bring in line with WP:GNG. Nomination smacks of WP:POINT. Giant Snowman 17:36, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- Comment - It was my understanding that the policies outlined in WP:NFOOTY and WP:NFOOTBALL, both under the heading of WP:NSPORTS, were only intended as useful guidelines, rules of thumb, and that WP:GNG still had to be met to justify a full article. As a relatively recent creation, this article maybe needs more time. I am wondering, though, if it does not maybe fall into a class of articles ( WP:SUBSTUBS on young footballers/ soccer players) whose good faith creation was premised on a misinterpretation of WP:NSPORTS (?). Or maybe I am the one who is misinterpreting-- in that case, please help! KDS4444 Talk 22:13, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- Keep. Appears to meet the GNG. [2] Mice never shop ( talk) 23:54, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- Keep - I did a quick Google search for this player in Serbian, and the first result was the Novosti article Vejvančický mentioned above. I've expanded the article slightly based on my reading of the Google translation of the article. The article is non-routine coverage in a reliable source, and if I had the time to translate more Serbian language articles, it would very easily meet the GNG. This is a lazy nomination at best. Jogurney ( talk) 04:56, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- "Lazy" because I don't speak Serbian but nevertheless did manage to check the Serbian and the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias and verified that there was nothing there in either one nor was there any non-trivial coverage of this person anywhere in at least the English-speaking press. Riiiiiiight. Lazy. Thank you for acknowledging the effort, though. KDS4444 Talk 17:05, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- I always check for local-language coverage (using the rather imperfect online web translation tools) WP:BEFORE nominating a biography for deletion. If you're not comfortable doing this, perhaps add a notability tag to the article and let someone who is comfortable checking non-English-language sources determine whether it makes sense to bring to AfD. I suppose you did get me to slightly improve the article, but otherwise this AfD has been a time-waster. Jogurney ( talk) 17:35, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
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