Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Craig (footballer)

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 20:56, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Craig (footballer)

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTY. Has not played first-team football in a fully professional league or received significant media coverage. PROD was contested with 'Stop vandalising wiki' reason given... JMHamo (talk) 20:39, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. JMHamo (talk) 20:40, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 05:11, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - fails WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL. Giant Snowman 09:03, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I lean toward delete - Every single one of the sources is behind a paywall and since they are not formatted it's essentially impossible to find alternative means to review them. Can anyone even verify that they demonstrate notability? -Thibbs (talk) 11:36, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:PAYWALL. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 13:57, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment - The paywall issue is not relevant here, the sources do not reference elements of the article that assert notability per GNG or NFOOTY. Fenix down (talk) 17:34, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment - Yeah, I think my use of the word "paywall" may have distracted from my post. What I'm saying here is that because a paywall is used there is no way for me to ascertain notability. I'm thus only leaning delete. If it can be verified through these or other sources that this player meets GNG or NFOOTY then that's different. Again, can anyone verify the content of these refs? -Thibbs (talk) 17:43, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per GS. Like all the irish footballers nominated in the last couple of months, he has not played in a fully professional league nor played senior international football or received significant non-routine coverage for any other activity within football. Perhaps there is more of a need to look at these AfDs as a group rather than individually? Far from vandalising WP, there seems to be a large amount of non-notable irish footballers present on WP. Fenix down (talk) 12:43, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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