Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wilhelm Nielsen (Danish footballer)


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The result was redirect to List of Denmark international footballers (1–24 caps). The agreement here is that the subject is not notable enough to justify a separate article. Without any rebuttal against the "redirect" alternative, the result culminated as such. ✗ plicit  10:58, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Wilhelm Nielsen (Danish footballer)

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Violates the general criteria of WP:NOTDATABASE due to being an article that replicates a database entry. In addition, it fails WP:GNG and WP:SPORTSCRIT.

Previously nominated in a group nomination which was closed as no consensus on procedural grounds. BilledMammal (talk) 05:18, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. BilledMammal (talk) 05:18, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Football and Denmark.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 07:33, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:03, 18 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep Player who won the Danish Championship three times in 1921–22, 1924–25 and 1931–32 with Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, highly doubt correct WP:BEFORE has been done. Govvy (talk) 08:51, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. NFOOTY was deprecated because it was such a poor predictor of GNG; implying SIGCOV is likely based solely on his meeting former NFOOTY criteria is therefore not a valid keep reason. A search for "Wilhelm Nielsen" "boldklub" returned just 3 pages of results, all of them football databases/directories (including one book) or brief mentions in non-independent media. JoelleJay (talk) 18:06, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per . In addition, having been a Danish international and three-time Danish league winner 1920s-30s there are definitely off-line soucres about him. Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 18:25, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * @Das osmnezz, re: there are definitely off-line soucres about him, please link to these sources that you found. JoelleJay (talk) 18:37, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me. GiantSnowman 18:53, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of Denmark international footballers (1–24 caps), if no-one finds enough SIGCOV to keep. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:00, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Struway2 if nothing else can found on him, per WP:ATD, WP:PRESERVE, WP:R and WP:CHEAP.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 09:17, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, JoelleJay and GiantSnowman. The "keep" vote speculates that there are off-line source, but no actual WP:SIGCOV has been presented to support a policy-based argument to keep. If SIGCOV later shows up, the article can be re-created, and the present AfD poses no threat of losing real value since the total narrative text of the current article is less than 15 words. Cbl62 (talk) 18:12, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete No indication of being notable.   scope_creep Talk  10:09, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete the article fails GNG and fails verification. We do not keep articles because people hand wave and say "there are definitely off-line sources about him." This is a-because vague claims do not hold water and b-because not everyone who is mentioned in a source somewhere is notable. I can find name drops of my teachers from middle school in feel good local press stories about some project we did as a middle school team, that does not make those teachers notable. Likewise, just because there are match reports that name most or all of the competitors in a football game, and brief articles about football players being traded, and other name drops, does not mean that those things together mean we have to have an article on every football player ever. We need explicit references to what these online sources are so that they can be considered and evaluated. Until we have that, we need to go with what we actually do have, and what we have is not enough to justify an article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:37, 21 July 2022 (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.