Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radik Salikhov


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The result was delete. Technically passes nfooty but shown to fail GNG. Fenix down (talk) 07:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Radik Salikhov

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He has only played in ten matches as a substitute in the third tier of Russian football which would past GNG but a quick browse on the google in both Russian and English shows only four results. None of them relating to him. HawkAussie (talk) 05:58, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. HawkAussie (talk) 05:58, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. HawkAussie (talk) 05:58, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. HawkAussie (talk) 05:58, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * keep Professional league, WildCherry06 08:28, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you suggesting that every person paid to play football must have a Wikipedia article? Pontificalibus 09:07, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually User:Pontificalibus, that's generally how it works. Invariably, any player who plays on a fully-professional team, will acquire enough GNG coverage to meet WP:N, so in order to save ourselves lots of time and energy trying to research foreign-language sources, often in Cyrillic and other non-Latin scripts, in closed societies, with limited Internet, and get into Bias issues, we generally accept this at face value. There are exceptions though - typically for players who only have a handful of appearances on unknown teams in the lower divisions. In this case, I'm surprised to see that the regional 3rd Tier of Russian soccer is listed as fully professional (are we sure about that? User:Jogurney?). Most of this players very few appearances were for a team that only got to this level for a single season before going bankrupt. This could very well be the rare case where WP:N is technically met, but we shouldn't have an article, as they don't come close to meeting GNG. Nfitz (talk) 19:01, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I checked the sourcing on WP:FPL supporting the idea that the Russian third-tier is fully-pro, and it's incredibly weak. Essentially, it appears that because an employment registration is required for each player and because the league is governed by the same body as the second-tier, we think it is fully-pro. I think we had a similar issue with the Greek third-tier: it is governed by the same body as the second-tier, but unlike the second-tier it is regionalized and most likely semi-pro (attendance and online coverage is pretty low). However, this is a discussion for that Talk page. Jogurney (talk) 21:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:GNG. A biography requires more than just basic facts and needs to be supported by significant coverage. Pontificalibus 09:07, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 15:36, 20 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - fails WP:GNG, which is far more important than scraping by on WP:NFOOTBALL. Plenty of consensus for this. GiantSnowman 15:37, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Article about footballer who played in the regionalized Russian third-tier, but the only online English- and Russian-language coverage is routine stuff like this: Match report, Match report, Match report, Match report (plus database entries at Footballfacts.ru and Sportbox.ru). He apparently scored a goal or two and received a yellow card, but the coverage is literally a single sentence out of a report about the entire match. With a comprehensive GNG failure, NFOOTBALL's presumption of notability doesn't hold. Jogurney (talk) 21:39, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete – Fails GNG per editors above – Levivich 02:19, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per NFOOTY --BlameRuiner (talk) 18:50, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:GNG. Andygray110 (talk) 20:42, 25 September 2019 (UTC)


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