Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abolfazl Hajizadeh


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was Keep.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)   12:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Abolfazl Hajizadeh et al
A slew of Iranian footballers (or footballers who play in one Iranian team). Originally correctly marked as speedy A7 - the articles do not assert an notability beyond the fact that they play football - but both AfD and DRV in the past has had questions about whether playing for a national league team = notability or not. I say not, so here they all come. ➨  ЯEDVERS  15:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Davoud Seyed Abbasi
 * Ebrahim Assadi
 * Ehsan Khorsandi
 * Elong Elong
 * Farzad Ashoobi
 * Hossein Badamaki
 * Louay Salah Hassan
 * Masoud Zarei
 * Mohammad Mohammadi
 * Nima Ghavidel
 * Rafael Edereho
 * Sheys Rezaei
 * Faraz Fatemi (added by Spartaz)

*Delete I put the tags on. Personally a one line articles do not a notable person make. If they are notable they should contain much more information providing a context. If not, well I refer to my original speedy tag --Spartaz 15:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC), Looks like a pile on speedy keep for this lot. --Spartaz 05:14, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. They're notable players because of the level they play at. The articles are correctly flagged as stubs, and shouldn't be deleted on that basis. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 15:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. If they're playing at IPL level - that's the top domestic league in Iran, they qualify as notable in my book, especially as a team of largely home-grown Iranian players qualified for the World Cup. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the IPL is a largely profesional league, and passes WP:BIO - fchd 17:48, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. If they play at a national league level, they are notable. Iran's league is professional. Therefore, there is no reason to believe it is somehow substandard. In fact by saying so, it is an unfair judgement on the Iranian league. Don't just delete stuff because it is a one-line article. That is blaming the contributor for attempting to start an article on which there should be information. Nlsanand 18:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep all The team most of these players represent (Persepolis FC) are eight times Iranian champions, regularly featuring in continental competitions such as the Asian Champions League, and recently played in a pre-season tournament involving Lazio and Wigan Athletic. A Farsi speaker would have no trouble finding plenty of sources to expand these articles. At least one of these players (Badamaki) is an international . Oldelpaso 18:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. Oldelpaso 18:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep all, playing in a top professional league in a country as large as Iran is enough to be notable. – Elisson • Talk 20:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, We have to remember that Wikipedia is read worldwide and not just by people from the UK. Few people from the UK will have an interest in Iranian league footballers, but then, few Iranians will care about UK soap stars and pop stars. These footballers will be celebrities in the Iran, regularly appearing on Iranian television, and may therefore be more famous worldwide than many UK celebrities listed on Wikipedia. Also, some of these players may have played in the 2006 World and would have been watched on television by 100s of millions of people. Epbr123 22:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep These players are professionals and have proven notability. -- Alias Flood 02:25, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - as if they were US Baseball players, I'm sure no-one would mind. My I remind everyone of the problems with systematic bias we have? LinaMishima 13:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Professional footballers are notable per se.  --Pkchan 14:53, 23 August 2006 (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.