Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Alan Stevanovic

Just some thoughts for the future. Maybe the nom could have had held back for a bit. This AfD was not wrong but just poor timing. To AfD the article just after the 19 year old had played a first team friendly and had been called to the subs bench there was every chance he would make an appearence during the AfD. In spite of some of the comments there were sufficient Reliable sources on this guy that IMO he could make a marginal claim to passing the general notability guideline. But a rigid adherence to a particular interpretation of WP:Athlete was a constraining factor. WP:Athlete although a very helpful standard should not completely overide general notability either way. This guy was IMO already far more WP:notable than someone who has had one game for Accrington Stanley F.C. e.g. this guy at present. Holding back for a bit to see if Stevanovic's career really was a dead end and then having the AfD debate may have saved some time. I am well aware of WP:Crystal but there were already sufficient reliable sources that maybe we could have waited on this one. Polargeo (talk) 10:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC)