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Glen Gilmore (polo player)
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Notability
Seriously, is every polo player who ever graced a team in the last 100 years notable? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 17:36, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, a lot of players are notable and of great interest to people who are involved in polo.


 * Perhaps, but Wikipedia is not a polo directory, it is an encyclopedia. Are these people generally notable, according to the guidelines of WP:BIO or even WP:GNG? Where is the significant coverage?  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

The fact is that to achieve a polo handicap above 7 or above puts you in the top 1% of your playing generation also to play for your country for any sport is worthy of notability. The polo players that I have created articles for have done one or both of those two. In one or two exceptions I have created an article for an individual, who, may be notable to the sport's community but is more notable for their extra-polo achievements. I have written on a number of players who were at the forefront of the game between 1900 and 1940 and during this time the sport was at the height of its popularity. Players received celebrity status and the articles and books I have provided as reference prove this. For more information I would refer you to 'The World of Polo, past and present' by J. N. P.Watson; 'The Evolution of Polo' by Horace A. Laffaye and 'Profiles in Polo: The Players Who Changed the Game' also by Horace A. Laffaye. These books provide a good insight into the status and notability of the worlds top players during the last 140 years. They also reference to a large number of sources that I regrettably am not aware of how to reference on Wikipedia. Also I have found that the New York Times Archives have a huge number of very helpful articles from the first half of the last century referring to polo. 'Polo Quarterly Magazine' have endeavoured to record biographic information on the international players and competitions of past and present. However, no one has taken the time to include this information on the publicly accessible forum of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is obviously not a polo directory, it is an encyclopaedia and therefore it should include a full description of polo, its history and its most notable players.


 * I agree with Bill, great job. Bill, let me know (on my talkpage) if you're still around and perhaps we can work together on some more articles. I don't have Laffaye's very useful books with me though.Zigzig20s (talk) 20:10, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

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Don't forget that entries not welcome at Wikipedia are still welcome at Wikidata. See a polo entry here Maurice John Kingscote. You can still link to the Wikidata entry from Wikipedia at the Roehampton Trophy. Some people will just be a one or two sentence article, but those entries are welcome at Wikidata. You can also suggest polo related fields such as their handicap. We can also create fields for polo references that contain biographical information. And don't forget there are still polo entries at Flickr Commons from the Library of Congress that need context added to them like this one, that was partially solved. Here is another Wikidata entry for someone with almost no info: H. H. Harrison--RAN (talk) 18:09, 4 November 2017 (UTC)