Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehta (Uttar Pradesh cricketer) (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Delete all rather than redirect, as no specific redirect target(s) have been identified. If people find suitable targets later they can add appropriate redirects at their discretion. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:05, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Mehta (Uttar Pradesh cricketer)
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Article fails to meet WP:GNG. We don't even have enough biographical information to write this person's full name. Mehta is a very common surname in India, for those of you who didn't know. This RfC already confirmed that SSGs like WP:CRIN do not supersede the GNG. Dee 03  15:14, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  Dee  03  15:14, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because of the same reason:
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 * Comment - I direct you to my question here. If you can please answer my question there instead of clogging here. Bobo. 15:20, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * You have already asked the same question in multiple places and can find my answer . Dee  03  15:34, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete all per my reasoning at Articles_for_deletion/D._Gamit. <b style="color: Maroon;">Reyk</b> <b style="color: Blue;">YO!</b> 15:41, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Can you please answer the question I have posed you there, regarding "extra prose"? I still have no idea what the answer would be. Bobo. 15:49, 8 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete all. I would be happy to see them all redirected to relevant lists, probably club-based, if such exist or can be created within a reasonable timespan. It does look as if the cricket project has a major problem with the number of these miniature articles that I've seen on this deletion page since I adopted it only yesterday. As I have said in several deletion discussions below, for football (my sport) or hockey or cycling or paragliding or whatever, an article must have narrative so that the reader (who?) has something to read. These "articles" are nothing more than brief notes taken from a glance at a dubious online page containing scorecard statistics. I see that the Cricket Archive site is again in evidence, usually as an external link only. It is paywalled but I am told that it is an unreliable source, self-published by a private society. Unless you are a member of the club or are prepared to pay an exorbitant subscription fee, you don't get to see stuff that is any event available upon the professionally run Cricinfo or in books like Wisden and Playfair. Okay, you have to pay for the last two but at least you get a good book for your outlay. All of these "articles" lack significant coverage and fail the GNG, as Dee03 rightly points out. As he also says, Mehta is a very common Indian name and is among others the name of a famous dirigent, namely Zubin Mehta. No Great Shaker (talk) 19:41, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I cannot be certain of how up-to-date it is, but List of Uttar Pradesh cricketers at least looks more comprehensive than many other teams' pages. Bobo. 19:45, 8 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Redirect to the appropriate "List of (Indian state) cricketers" articles. They may be repurposed into a List of English cricketers (1787–1825) style to accomodate permastubs. FoxyGrampa75 (talk) 22:42, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete all Cricket has some of the largest collections of articles on people who almost nothing is known about of any sports. We are finally making headway against some of the filler articles on Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:33, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the relevant state/team list pages as appropriate - or delete if that option is considered unsuitable for some reason. The lack of biographical information means that the chances of finding in depth sources about any of these chaps is remote in the extreme. If that information does show up then we could reconsider the articles - a redirect makes this easy to establish. Given that that they each played just one match that we know of - with the exception of Narain who played in two - the chances of finding sources just now seem remote at best. Given that only Ajantha has a page on any other wiki that's linked (Tamil - contains no more than the en-wiki page) this seems even less likely. Blue Square Thing (talk) 12:08, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * delete all: per my comment on similar bundled AfD. Existence with verification is one thing, and notability is other. These players fail WP:GNG big time. Even if the subject passes some subject specific guideline, it doesnt mean we must have an article on it. All the coverage I could find came from the websites that try to cover everything n anything related to cricket, this doesnt establish notability. And due to the lack of persistent significant coverage, we can delete the articles. — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)  06:49, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete I think consensus is clear that the various persons with (full name and details unknown) and one (or two, in a few of these) first-class appearance are not inherently notable, regardless of what CRIN may say. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 20:13, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


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