Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcus Holden


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The result was redirect to Steve Davies (footballer, born 1960). Eddie891 Talk Work 22:49, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Marcus Holden

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Notability concern as well as blatant COI concern with edits/hijackings like this edit. There has been an edit war about him being New Zealand or England born but no reliable sources to support either. The problem with these low-profile sports BLPs is it's really hard to tell whether any of the info is actually true or not and this is one of the reasons why I don't think that they should have an article.

Playing for semi-pro Stirling County RFC and non-High Performance Cyprus does not count towards WP:NRU in any case. None of the cited sources provide significant coverage of Holden; appearing in match reports does not confer notability. Statements about his playing style are unsourced, unfortunately.

Alleged claims to notability through his football career are not supported by any sources and I couldn't find him in any football databases so there is no proof that he has played in the top tier of Cyprus, which would have made him notable. WP:NFOOTBALL not met. Best sources in a search appear to be ones like  which are just fairly standard match report mentions. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:51, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 20:50, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom, fails WP:NRU with no professional or notable international appearances. In terms of GNG there's again passing mentions but not enough for significant coverage. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 09:21, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Steve Davies (footballer, born 1960), where he is mentioned. Nfitz (talk) 23:59, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Steve Davies (footballer, born 1960), per Nfitz. Redirect from relative. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 13:23, 3 September 2021 (UTC)


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