Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Green Man (cricket ground)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  13:15, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

The Green Man (cricket ground)
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As far i can see this is a page for the location of a single cricket match, that they don't actually know where it happened, only near the ground of a cricket club without an article, but I'd be very happily proven wrong. For that matter, I think I've done the nomination wrong. Erik Sergeant (talk) 12:21, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Cricket and England. Shellwood (talk) 12:42, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment agree with above, feel like this should be a historic place, but I can't find much. JSTOR has listings for any cricket ground, nothing for this place. Oaktree b (talk) 13:04, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Unsourced, therefore OR and fails WP:GNG. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 13:08, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, although it's not really unsourced as one of the external links certainly works and could easily be repurposed as a reference if desired. The name seems to have been changed to simply The Green since the article was created though and without anyone with a book on cricket grounds in Essex used by obscure sides, I doubt we're going to find suitable sourcing here. It would seem better to delete - I can't think of a suitable redirection target, although I suppose List of cricket grounds in England and Wales might be an option. The article would need moving to something like The Green, Navestock first though. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:46, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I am satisfied it is a real sporting event rather than a hoax given it appears in the cricket statistics sites such as 1. Personally, I can't see much value in retaining very old sporting data as pages where very little is known from a very small pool of source material, but I appear to be in a minority of that view. It seems to me to make a mockery of the notability system when other pages, often for non-English people or organisations, have to meet the impossible standards of some editors here - whereas old sporting pages seem to get a pass. Merge with some other relevant page or delete. JMWt (talk) 15:05, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as no evidence it passes WP:GNG. There doesn't look to be a valid redirect alternative to deletion, as Essex CCC never played at the ground (otherwise it could have been redirected to List of Essex County Cricket Club grounds). Joseph2302 (talk) 07:41, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Per the comments of both BST and Joseph2302 it would be good to redirect here, but there isn't really a suitable redirect option available that I can see. Fails GNG. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 18:41, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It looks as if the ground still exists and is in use - with a pub sign on the outfield, which obviously pleases me greatly. I'll add a short section to the locality article, but given the naming issues I'm not sure that a redirect there really works. Blue Square Thing (talk) 07:05, 14 October 2022 (UTC)


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