Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Hardy


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 14:11, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Michael Hardy

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Not a notable cricket player. Played one first-class match, no non-statistical (or wiki-mirror) coverage found. Not to be confused with Michael Yardy. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 06:24, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 06:24, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 06:24, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete unless more indepth (non-routine) coverage can be found. Nothing seemed to be available online. Fram (talk) 08:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of D. R. Jardine's XI cricketers, which would need to be created. StickyWicket (talk) 11:39, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete; fails all basic notability standards including SPORTBASIC. No significant coverage; only sources are all-inclusive databases. wjematherplease leave a message... 11:50, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - the complete failure of WP:GNG far surpasses the skin of teeth passing of WP:NCRIC Spiderone  16:26, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Another extremely minor sportsperson who would have a place on a specialist Fandom site, but not this one. RobinCarmody (talk) 21:30, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to a suitable list, although I'm not sure in this case that this solution is as suitable. I can find one very brief reference to him in an Oundle history paper and he's not mentions in the relevant public schools sections of Wisden from 1946 or 1947, although he appears in the stats in the 46 edition (14 wickets at 21 - third or fourth on the Oundle list for the 45 season). I can't find a Wisden obit and The Times didn't write a report on the first-classmatch he played in (but was writing about Eton v Harrow at the same time...). Specialist Oundle or TA sources might turn up something a bit more of course, but I think we're going to struggle here to find anything effective in terms of sourcing. I'm not sure that his work as an author will meet that criteria either, assuming it's the same person. Blue Square Thing (talk) 07:28, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NSPORTS says "Trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may be used to support content in an article, but it is not sufficient to establish notability. This includes listings in database sources with low, wide-sweeping generic standards of inclusion, such as Sports Reference's college football and basketball databases." This has only that. Reywas92Talk 08:50, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment. Once this is deleted, as seems very likely, might the name "Michael Hardy" usefully redirect to the country musician whose article is linked in the hatnote, who has this name but is only known by his surname?  Seems reasonable if there is (in one very large country at least, even if scarcely anywhere else) a more notable person of this name.  RobinCarmody (talk) 23:31, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - does not pass WP:GNG.  Onel 5969  TT me 01:26, 18 December 2020 (UTC)


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