Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Baldwin (cricketer)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  10:07, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Thomas Baldwin (cricketer)

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Biography which fails to meet WP:GNG, WP:ATHLETE or WP:NCRIC. Very limited biographical information from Haygarth - essentially we know a name existed on what is implied to be a set of scorecards from the 1760s and nothing else - the external link mentions a single scorecard from 1764. The matches are not considered to be first-class cricket, despite the article's claims - Surrey played its first first-class match in 1773, Chertsey its only FC match in 1778 and there is no suggestion that Baldwin played for either in FC cricket. There is no reference to Baldwin on ether CricketArchive or CricInfo. PROD originally contested on the grounds that there "some dispute about the status of these cricketers" - presumably on the basis that there is a claim on the article page that the match that was played in is considered first-class. The fact that CricketArchive - which is reliable for scorecards - does not have Baldwin in its database makes it clear that this is not the case. Without anything other than a name on what appears to be a single scorecard there's very little hope that the article will ever be a suitable topic for a biographical article. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:18, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete: Also fails WP:BASIC and WP:ANYBIO. Has some brief mentions, but there is no significant coverage otherwise, and it is unlikely there will any, given that he is an 18th century figure. —Madrenergictalk 17:01, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, and per similar articles and issues raised at the Cricket Project.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 18:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC)


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