Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shirmohammad Balouchnezhad


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 12:48, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Shirmohammad Balouchnezhad

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Fails WP:CRIN as cricketer has not played to a notable enough level: WP:CRIN states they must have played first-class, List A or Twenty cricket (or their international equivalents Test, ODI, T20I), or have played in the World Cricket League up to division five. Balouchnezhad and the other nominated Iranian cricketers have not played to these levels, failing WP:ATH and WP:GNG by extension. Howzat?Out!Out!Out! (talk) 11:13, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Howzat?Out!Out!Out! (talk) 13:14, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Comment - Nariman Bakhtiar hasn't played any first-class cricket, if he had then both CricketArchive and ESPNcricinfo would hold a profile detailing that. As ESPNcricinfo is down at the momeny, his CricketArchive profile is viewable here. CricketArchive, maintained by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians is an authority on cricket statistics. If he had played first-class cricket, they'd have made mention in his career statistics. Playing for local club teams doesn't make a player notable, otherwise we'd have hundreds of thousands of people who could lay claim to having an article (myself included!). Also, being talented doesn't warrant an article, simply put the level of cricket Iran play at is too minor to be of note. China themselves are a pretty lousy team (dismissed for 37 in 2009 by ODI playing Afghanistan). Note though, that Singaporean, Emirati and Malaysian cricketers who all have articles having played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for the UAE or Malaysia (though minus T20 for Malaysia) and for Singapore the players have played domestic first-class cricket in Pakistan, India or Sri Lanka. Bear in mind also that football and rugby place less emphasis on statistics and status of matches, hence the guidelines for the inclusion of cricketers reflect that. A good example of this is the 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup, where the players with articles have all played one of the above levels of cricket (or played in the higher levels of the World Cricket League). Howzat?Out!Out!Out! (talk) 11:03, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Nariman Bakhtiar has played first-class cricket in Pakistan playing for National Bank of Pakistan cricket team and Pakistan Customs cricket team. Salimian has not played first-class cricket however he has played cricket in Karachi local teams for over a decade, he is basically the father of Iran's cricket and helped to establish the sport there. Balouchnezhad is a talented cricketer who made 118 runs in an international match versus China, that's a great achievement for a cricketer who is not from a top national cricket team. If Singaporean, Emirati, Malaysian and other criketers have pages in wikipedia then Iranian national team cricketers should as well. If in Football/Soccer players from low ranked national teams have a page in wikipedia then why the same rule shouldn't apply to cricket? User:rooyintan (talk) 10:23, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Whilst my personal opinion is that all players to have played on official internationals are notable, there is a community agreed guideline for what levels of cricket qualify a player for inclusion on Wikipedia. Whilst that guideline can be overridden in certain special circumstances, this isn't one of them. Andrew nixon (talk) 16:43, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:20, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

 
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Gongshow  Talk 01:26, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Jack | talk page 18:53, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
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