Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geoff Anderson (cricketer)


 * 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 keep. Consensus was to keep. (non-admin closure)  Onel 5969  TT me 19:12, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Geoff Anderson (cricketer)

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One of many cricket articles that fail WP:GNG big time. After four other AfDs on cricket players I started ended all in "redirect" (123), 4), I redirected some other articles with the same lack of individual notability. This was reverted for being "pointy disruption" by the article creator. So I'll nominate them for AfD instead, with no objection from my side to either deletion or redirection. I nominate them individually, as it may turn out that, despite my searches for sources, some of these can be shown to be actually notable. Fram (talk) 14:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Fram (talk) 14:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Fram (talk) 14:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. Fram (talk) 14:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep Passes WP:NCRIC. The nom made a recent failed RfC to remove the said notability requirements. Since then, they have tried to circumnavigate this by making mass redirects instead. The nom has said that they "have no beef with Lugnuts", however following their failed RfC, have seemingly gone out of their way to target artciles I've worked on. Another RfC on sporting articles closed with the comments "As with the RfC on secondary school notability, this should not be an invitation to "flood AfD with indiscriminate or excessive nominations". And yet, there have been 25+ AfDs logged by Fram in a 15/20 minute window, indicating no WP:BEFORE was used.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 14:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets WP:NCRIC. Nominator didn't do a WP:BEFORE to show the opposite. The nominator nominated (automatically) a large amount of cricketeers. It would have been better to made a bunch of them in one nomination. SportsOlympic (talk) 15:52, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * You have posted the same incorrect claims about me (which are not relevant to keeping or deleting this article anyway) at all these AfDs. I hope you will be kind enough to take into account my answer at one of them and correct all your statements accordingly. Fram (talk) 16:16, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. 16 first-class matches, a regular first-class player for 3 seasons. Definitely notable. Sammyrice (talk) 00:06, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * And yet no WP:RS indepth sources about him, only databases? Fram (talk) 08:45, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:CRIN with 16 first-class appearances. We're not talking one FC appearance here, but 16. I'd imagine there are RS sources out there to expand his biography, did the nominator check this before nominating? StickyWicket (talk) 14:02, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, I checked this for all of these. That doesn't mean that they don't exist, but they didn't show up in my searches. I have already withdrawn one AfD where searching with a different name (Frank instead of Francis) gave other useful results. If such results can ve found here, then the article can be recreated. Simply hoping that such sources exist won't improve the article to an acceptable state of course. Fram (talk) 14:13, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete totally fails GNG which is the minimum standard for all articles. Any article that fails to meet GNG should be deleted.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:55, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:GNG. Nothing notable about him in my searches. WP:ATD is redirect. Even no obituary on his death. Störm   (talk)  21:46, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. 16 first-class matches, regular player in his first-class side for three seasons. Plainly notable. Johnlp (talk) 00:59, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of Otago representative cricketers which is an established alternative to deletion and provides an opportunity to recover the text of this article should sources be found which mean that the chap can be shown to pass the GNG. Given his 16 matches I want to tend towards keeping, as I tend to think that should throw up some sources, but the lack of an obituary seems difficult to get past. Blue Square Thing (talk) 18:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, per WP:NCRIC. The point of that is that at this level there will be enough reliable sources, it is just a matter of someone putting in the time to find them. The existence of the page is the best trigger for that. Moonraker (talk) 18:29, 30 January 2021 (UTC)


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