Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edson Rodriguez


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The result was   delete. Tone 23:22, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Edson Rodriguez

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Unreferenced BLP. No reliable sources are readily available to support notability. Ghits do not support notability. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - While it does tend to irk me, WP:ATHLETE seems to imbue everybody who's played pro ball with automatic notability. This person also seems to satisfy the Football Wikiproject's informal criteria for notability (see WikiProject Football/Notability).   --Dynaflow   babble  18:43, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: - I agree that WP:ATH covers the notability as asserted (which is why this isn't a speedy), but I think this would fail that on WP:V. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:06, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Looking here, Rodriguez doesn't show up on the team roster. Also, I have to note that 14 does seem a little young to go into pro sports, even on what seems to be a second-tier team; his supposed teammates look like they wouldn't break a sweat smearing a 5'2" adolescent into the turf, and I assume the same holds for other players in that league.  The creator of the article also only made edits to this one page, even though most people who write the soccer football-player articles I see going by on newpages will do a whole team's worth of articles in a relatively short period of time.  Finally, I note that the username of the creator is, which would indicate a girl at the same age (and class level) as Edson writing things like, "Edson is being named on of the next hugo sanchez!!"[sic] before backing off and writing in something slightly more sensible.  You put two and two together.   --Dynaflow   babble  19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note – I notice there was also a who created a similarly named article. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 20:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Aha, it's a reference to Ciudad Victoria, hometown of the reputed football prodigy.  --Dynaflow   babble  03:52, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:04, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:58, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep It needs a native speaker of the language to sort out sources, but according to this search at least some seem to exist. - Mgm|(talk) 08:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - my Spanish is rudimentary to non-existent, but none of those sources seem to be about this guy. Some are about a murder victim from 1995, others are about a footballer but date from as faar back as 2006, before this guy supposedly made his debut, and refer to Rodriguez as playing for Deportivo Galicia of Venezuela, so I would suggest that it is not the same guy.  Narrowing down the search by including the name of the team this Edson Rodriguez supposedly plays for gives only one hit, and even that isn't about him. Also doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere on the club's official website, and the squad section (as linked by Dynaflow above) shows that squad number 7 is worn by one Armando Tavira Silva, not this kid..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Chris is right, the no.7 shirt doesn't belong to this kid. Looks like we got ourselves a hoax here. Bettia   (rawr!)  10:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per ChrisTheDude, probable hoax. GiantSnowman 11:26, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. The FMF website has no record of such a player at Correcaminos (or at any club). See here. Jogurney (talk) 13:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note as well if the search is done with quotes around the name "Edson Rodriguez" there are zero hits. -- Infrogmation (talk) 03:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax King of the  North   East  21:20, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Deleted, clear hoax. No legitimate edits seen from article creator; suggest block. -- Infrogmation (talk) 03:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax Camw (talk) 11:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


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