Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Bredbury


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   withdrawn by nom. (non-admin closure)  D u s t i *poke* 20:31, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Tim Bredbury

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This article is about a notable footballer from Hong Kong. The article however, contains absolutely no references, and a recently placed BLP Prod tag was removed from the article. I added unreferencedBLP to it, but was reliably informed it's no benefit.

Since the article is composed entirely of unsourced material, the BLP rules state that unreferenced or unsourced material be removed immediately. The whole article being so, it's filed here for deletion. ''' Barking Fish ''' 04:40, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

*** WITHDRAWN - Passing admin, please close. ***  Barking Fish  17:20, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete completely unsourced and per nom, BLP rules state the material needs to be removed immediatley.  D u s t i *poke* 04:43, 4 January 2011 (UTC) :As Cullen stated, there is other course of action to take rather than delete, and while there is only one reference, which makes it seem like it's a non biased reference (see source name) it's not totally unreference. I am the individual who sought help from BarkingFish, who sought help from someone else, so there were originally three individuals who felt there was something wrong with this article, and there's nothing wrong with bringing it to a community discussion.  D u s t i *poke* 19:39, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Nominator concedes that subject is notable. Instead of deleting, the correct course of action is to add references to reliable sources to the article. When possible, we improve unreferenced BLPs, rather than deleting them. Cullen328 (talk) 05:24, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Nominator and Dusti seem to misunderstand the BLP policy. It is contentious unreferenced BLP material that needs to be removed immediately.  There is nothing contentious in this article. Cullen328 (talk) 05:32, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep. As Cullen328 just said, BarkingFish, you seem to misunderstand the policy at hand. Starting an AfD discussion and point blank stating that the subject is notable in your rationale is not a way to get the article deleted.  Erpert  Who is this guy? 07:57, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: Erpert - I know the subject is notable so I wasn't going to deliberately omit that - I was going by information given to me on IRC, where I had sought comment on the article having no sources. I explained what I had done and "take it to AFD" was the advice given to me. So I did.  Barking  Fish  13:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep There are some sources already for this article althought they may be not enough. But Dusti said the article is completely unsourced before and this time.FootballHK (talk) 10:34, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * There are not "some sources" - there is one. If you're including the external links as references, turn them into references.  At the moment, from your reflist, it looks like the article has one source, so unless you got it all from the same site, please make that clear.  Barking  Fish  13:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * So it is not "absolutely no references". FootballHK (talk) 13:51, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - Article about a notable footballer who played in FIFA "A" international matches (verified by an external link). Sourcing should be improved, but it's silly to nominate for deletion simply because the information is primarily verified by external links (which happen to be reliable sources). Jogurney (talk) 17:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.