Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashley Edkins


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:14, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Ashley Edkins

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Fails WP:GNG (which superseeds WP:NFOOTY). A player who happens to have played one game for a Football League team isn't inherently notable and there is no evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 12:22, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 12:24, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 12:24, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 12:28, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Who Cares, this will be deleted no doubt anyway, regardless of what I think, the player in question played one game in the Football League, which I understood to mean the article would qualify, hence me making the article in the first place, but if you need to delete it, then get it deleted. Skippo10 (talk) 15:24, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets WP:NFOOTBALL; there are plenty of sources out there, though none that I can see from a very quick Google search that would class as "significant", but I have concerns about nominator failing to WP:BEFORE. GiantSnowman 20:04, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I accept I could have tried to improve the article but I didn't see the point if the subject is not notable. I know there are sources on and offline that this guy existed and played in the Football League and he may well have been mentioned in the local press at the time but all of those sources only indicate that he played in one football game. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, that's why we have GNG. Including *every* footballer who played in one football match - in some cases even two or three matches - and did *nothing* else is not for Wikipedia. NFOOTBALL is only a soft rule which presumes there will be other sources to establish a footballer's notability over and above the standard statistical sites but not every one appearance wonder does generate significant coverage. Most of them don't. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 20:56, 9 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. An 89th minute substitute in his sole game.  The creator's response is telling.  RobinCarmody (talk) 22:19, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete we need to change to football notability guidelines to require multiple games, just like we require multiple roles in notable productions. Since actors and actresses also need to meet the "significant" prong, we should also ask if just playing in a game makes your role significant. Also are all Fully professional football games really at a level that makes each one individually a notable event? Our inclusion criteria are way more permissive for sportsmen than for actors, with no good reason at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:23, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - no decent results during a Google search (including the main search, news, images and books), a ProQuest search yielded some coverage but none of it appears to be even close to significant; coverage of amateur football in local papers is trivial in nature at the best of times. Lastly, a search of British newspapers came up with no hits. If sources are found clearly showing WP:GNG is met then please let me know and I'll happily change my vote but nothing that I've seen so far convinces me that this footballer is notable. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:17, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Doing a quick search for him doesn't show enough independent sources, hence fails WP:GNG. Grailcombs (talk) 14:37, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete GNG is not met. The recent consensus (which I independently support) is that people who are no longer active footballers who only barely meet NFOOTY (in this case, from about 5 minutes in a fourth-division match) should not be kept based on NFOOTY. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 19:07, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG. Ping me if new sources are found. There is a consensus on notability of a football player who played only one pro game. --Kemalcan (talk) 14:29, 15 March 2021 (UTC)


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