Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Goldman (cricketer)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) ~ Amkgp  💬  18:45, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Arthur Goldman (cricketer)

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Fails WP:GNG - BeamAlexander (talk) 12:18, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Not sure how it fails notability, it was my understanding that First-Class cricket was sufficient grounds for a page given a large amount of stubs for players who have represented Australian states in first-class cricket. i.e.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Botten JagarTharnofTamriel (talk) 12:29, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hoping this works (not too familiar with wiki functions) but pinging (as he approved previous articles for cricketers, and as such I presume is familiar with the cricket side of wikipedia?) JagarTharnofTamriel (talk) 12:34, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 13:49, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep not 100% sure about NCRIC but definitely seems to pass WP:GNG. SportingFlyer  T · C  18:30, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment Definitely passes NCRIC; first-class (FC) matches are a suitable criteria, and he even represented Queensland in their inaugural FC game, interestingly. Now for GNG I think it's important to keep in mind that he did play in the 20th century. The vast majority of players from this era and even more recent ones probably are not gonna have 10 different articles written solely about them, as you might expect of an athlete in 2020. That's why I don't think players from older eras should be penalized for playing in a time when there was barely any sports coverage in the first place and all you might hope to find besides that are mentions in articles/sites written decades later. I know it can be tough to find good sources with these older sports biographies, even if they're definitely notable in their own right (1950s NBA players, 1930s NFL players, 1910s MLB players, etc). I could be looking at it the wrong way, but that's pretty much my take. JTtheOG (talk) 21:40, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep, state rep meets WP:NCRIC. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:56, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. State representative who has played cricket at the highest domestic level in Australia. Please take a little time to read WP:NCRIC before nominating. StickyWicket (talk) 15:09, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep, as a first-class cricketer and as someone who played in the first first-class match for "his" state. Would be nice to get some more information, however, as some contemporary newspaper references call him "Albert" rather than "Arthur". Johnlp (talk) 17:26, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails GNG. No Great Shaker (talk) 20:47, 12 June 2020 (UTC)


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