Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sven Smajlagic


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The result was keep. Killiondude (talk) 02:39, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Sven Smajlagic

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Does not meet WP:GNG, and doesn't appear to meet WP:NBASKETBALL.  Onel 5969  TT me 16:42, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. PriceDL (talk) 18:12, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. PriceDL (talk) 18:12, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Croatia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:48, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete - fails NBasketball. Atsme 📞📧 00:16, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete does not meet the amazingly low hurdles of notability for basketball players.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:15, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Whether or not the hurdles are "amazingly low" I do believe he meets them. Rlendog (talk) 15:48, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Meets the "amazingly low hurdles of notability for basketball players", per WP:NBASKETBALL, as he played in the EuroLeague in 2010-2011 as a member of KK Cibona, see here. -- Dammit_steve (talk) 10:50, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 06:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets WP:NBASKETBALL (which doesn't have amazingly-low hurdles relative to other sports). I'd also ask any closing admin to disregard the two !votes made under the mistaken idea that the subject doesn't meet NBASKETBALL. Rikster2 (talk) 13:13, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - While I agree that WP:NBASKETBALL doesn't have amazingly-low hurdles relative to other sports, they are still amazingly low hurdles. While he may technically meet NP:BASKET, because he played a whopping 2.5 minutes over the course of an entire season, missing his only attempt, while on a team that went winless that year, still doesn't pass WP:GNG, which is the over-riding guideline. The sport specific criteria are there as an indicator that a player is likely to pass GNG, but in this case, his meager playing time does not warrant the sport specific criteria to trump GNG.  Onel 5969  TT me 18:10, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - No, they actually aren’t amazingly-low. Players who have competed in a top league (and the EuroLeague consists of champions of domestic leagues and has a world following) usually have long careers with the news coverage to match. He’s had a Ten-year career and you have to achieve success in domestic leagues (getting notoriety all the way) to be offered a spot on a EuroLeague team. One of the benefits of the SSG is that for players like Smajlagac is that the majority of sources won’t be in English. The SSG helps editors undrestand that the sources probably exist. There is one already on the article that qualifies, I will look for some others but it’s slower going searching in Croatian. At any rate, it is lazy for editors to give a reason “doesn’t meet wp:NBASKETBALL” when that isn’t true. There is also no need for pot-shots at the editors who contribute to creating these standards in good faith (“amazingly-low”) in what is supposed to be a rational discussion. Rikster2 (talk) 19:21, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets NBasketball since he played in the Euroleague. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 15:51, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - per WP:NBASKETBALL. I have no problem with the SSG presumption that sources exist, especially when one is already in the article and most sources dealing with him are likely in a language that most English Wikipedia editors are unfamiliar with and would have difficulty searching effectively. Rlendog (talk) 15:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Played in the 2010-11 Euroleague for KK Cibona, i.e. meets WP:NBASKETBALL. GregorB (talk) 12:13, 14 January 2018 (UTC)


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