Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. Liyanarachchi


 * 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 delete. Tone 16:35, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

D. Liyanarachchi

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Nothing notable about him. No coverage found. Fails WP:GNG. Störm  (talk)  20:56, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:57, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:57, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:57, 10 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete we don't even know his full name, fails WP:BASIC. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: I have no cricket experience, and have no opinion on whether this should be kept or deleted. However, "we don't even know his full name" is a culturally inaccurate statement. The subject is Sri Lankan, and Tamil and Sinhalese Sri Lankans frequently use initials (including in official government records) to represent patronymic or given names, similar to how it is done in in Tamil Nadu. I will continue to reiterate this until people stop making this off-the-cuff "argument." Gnomingstuff (talk) 15:29, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * My mistake, I didn't realise, struck that comment. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:38, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Got it; this isn't meant to single you out (it's come up a lot over the past few days since for whatever reason there has been a spree of Sri Lankan cricket AfDs recently), and this isn't a keep argument, just something I've noticed. Gnomingstuff (talk) 17:20, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * If you know nothing about cricket than you should take your defense of these junk waste of space nothing filler "atricles" and go and get educated on what it requires to create an article, which is a lot more than knowing that one one day once someone played a game of cricket. These articles are utter and complete junk, and your obstructionist attack on the deletion process is making Wikipedia worse.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:06, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It appears you missed the fact that I neither mentioned the word "keep" nor advocated for keeping the article, anywhere. I do not care about this article either way, and I am not defending it. What I am defending is the basic fact that Western naming conventions are not adhered to everywhere in the world. A person in Sri Lanka being named in Sri Lankan fashion is not a referendum on his notability either way, arguing otherwise is culturally ignorant, and cultural ignorance is not a valid argument. You are free to find other, valid arguments.
 * Example: A. R. Rahman is an extremely well-known individual. He was born A. S. Dileep Kumar, and our article on him states as much. This is not because "we don't even know his full name," it's because that is how naming conventions work in his country. Again, you are free to "educate yourself" on this matter. Gnomingstuff (talk) 07:44, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete we know literally nothing about this guy except that one time he showed up and played in a cricket game. This is not enough to build an article on.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:04, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 06:06, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete the subject does pass WP:NCRIC by playing in a top-level domestic match, but passing NCRIC does not guarantee that a subject should be included. NCRIC is intended to allow people to determine quickly whether the subject is likely to meet the GNG. In this case I would be very surprised if GNG-passing coverage does in fact exist given that the subject only ever played in one cricket match at that level.  Hut 8.5  08:45, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete fails the GNG; a (marginal at best) passing of an SNG cannot outweigh this, unfortunately. ——  Serial  12:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)


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