Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Barker (Nottingham cricketer)


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

William Barker (Nottingham cricketer)

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Biography which fails to meet WP:GNG, WP:ATHLETE or WP:NCRIC. Very limited biographical information from CricketArchive or Haygarth - essentially we know a name existed on a set of scorecards from 1789-1792 and nothing else. The matches are not considered to be a first-class cricket match, despite the article's claims - Nottingham played its first first-class match in 1826. 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. CricketArchive - which is reliable for scorecards - makes it clear that this is not the case and there is no mention of the player on CricInfo. Without anything other than a name on a set of scorecards there's very little hope that the article will ever be a suitable topic for a biographical article. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:02, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because the situation is almost identical:

Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:09, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. North America1000 15:18, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * 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)
 * Delete. Per nom. StickyWicket (talk) 14:33, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete both - unless Barker is connected to Barker's Ground (I have an inkling that he might, but no tangible sources). If all we have is score card records - it doesn't rise to WP:GNG. Icewhiz (talk) 17:12, 27 December 2018 (UTC)


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