Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gavin Brown Award


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The result was delete. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:46, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Gavin Brown Award

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Has no notability outside of the Collingwood Football Club and fails to meet WP:GNG. There is a long list of awards at all club best and fairest awards night, and each award does not need their own article. A google search does not return any independent sources (only Collingwood website), the Fairfax Media archive returns only minor mentions in Collingwood B&F articles (no individual article about the notability of award), and one result from News Corp Australia as a minor mention in a Collingwood B&F article Flickerd (talk) 06:01, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


 * discussed here already. --SuperJew (talk) 06:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * comment the last nomination of this award was added very late into the discussion of the AfD for the Joseph Wren Memorial Trophy and the Gavin Brown Award was never really discussed as to why it should be deleted/merged/redirected etc. apart from lumping it in with the original nomination of the Joseph Wren Memorial Trophy (where some case can be made for assessing them differently due to one being a B&F award and another one being awarded for one-percenters, which isn't even considered one of the main AFL stats). Flickerd (talk) 06:25, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep as it is an important award, acknowledging courage and mateship. Is named after a famous player who captained the club for 5 years amongst other great achievements. --SuperJew (talk) 06:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete – as Flickerd says, this award receives no significant coverage. Its only appearance in independent sources is as a minor mention in articles about the Copeland Trophy, and this fails WP:GNG, specifically "Significant coverage addresses the topic directly and in detail" and "Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention". Aspirex (talk) 07:31, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge the text along with that of other minor internal awards to either Collingwood Football Club or (preferably) to a new article about CFC's awards since the existance of this award is of (minor) notibility, and Collingwood have a lot of club awards. Probably omit individual player listings for minor awards as those who want to see them can go straight to the source, assuming proper referencing. (nb: Gavin Brown (footballer) doesn't currently mention this award). undefinedHydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)  09:23, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. Frankly, this is about as obscure an award as you can get and even most Collingwood supporters wouldn't have heard of it. In terms of Wikipedia notability, Flickerd and Aspirex have hit the nail on the head – this award has not received significant coverage in independent reliable sources. I wouldn't even support a merge because there are currently zero independent reliable sources in the article. Jenks24 (talk) 11:18, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 01:35, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:13, 7 January 2016 (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.