Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Xuereb


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The result was keep. ✗ plicit  11:03, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Aaron Xuereb

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My first thought here was to find references for Xuereb's appearances for the Malta national football team. This article asserts that he has played seven matches for Malta. Given the extensive coverage of association football in online media, I thought this would be easy to WP:VERIFY. I found nothing in the usual go-to websites for footballers: for example espn.co.uk No available information. It would appear to me that this lack of verifiability for international matches calls into question whether Xuereb's Maltese Premier League career is, to be blunt, factual. Looking at the history of this article, it has never had what would be considered reliable references. At best, this article would not appear to pass any number of policies and guidelines including but not limited to WP:NFOOTY, WP:ANYBIO. As always, more than happy to be proven wrong. Pete AU aka Shirt58 (talk) 10:06, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:13, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:13, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Malta-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:13, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
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 * Keep - the claim to notability (Malta international) was verified in 3 seconds at this (which is already an external link at the article!). Article needs improving, not deleting. GiantSnowman 10:52, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Xuereb passes WP:NFOOTY by playing for Malta. Reliable sources confirm it. 1 2 3. Dougal18 (talk) 11:16, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - ESPN isn't the best source for caps. NFT, which was already linked in the article, is the most reliable one, in my view. World Football also has all 7 caps listed. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 11:43, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - very easily passes NFOOTY per GiantSnowman's NFT source above. Nehme1499 13:06, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep passes WP:NFOOTY played for Malta.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 20:49, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Nominator comment: on reflection, my rationale for this AFD discussion could be neatly summarised as "If I had started this article, I wouldn't have included the matches for the Malta national team, as that assertion did not meet my personal views about how articles should be referenced." If I'm the only person saying I'm right, and everyone else (including the editors of a number of other Wikipedias) are saying I'm wrong, I think it's a pretty sure bet that that I am wrong. I could attempt to mitigate this by pointing out that this was at one point tagged for A7 speedy deletion. This would pretty much ignore the obvious: that I'm the only person saying I'm right, and everyone else is saying I'm wrong. Particularly egregious would my completely wrong-headed and quite possibly WP:BLP-violating claim " this calls into question whether Xuereb's Maltese Premier League career is, to be blunt, factual." A search within articles in the Times of Malta easily dismisses this. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 11:04, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per above, however there is still a big gaping problem of zero inline citations on the article. Govvy (talk) 11:20, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per GiantSnowman. International player. No Great Shaker (talk) 13:24, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep passes NFOOTY.--Ortizesp (talk) 17:23, 20 September 2021 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.