Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Brennan

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The result was withdrawn‎ per WP:HEY. Primefac (talk) 18:38, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Jon Brennan

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No indication this is a notable individual, fails WP:NSPORT and WP:GNG. I find all of four GNews hits about him; a general search turns up stats pages and Wikipedia mirrors but not much else. Primefac (talk) 19:25, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Education, Sports, Rugby union, United Kingdom, and England. Primefac (talk) 19:25, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Jersey-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 21:05, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
• Weak delete an internet search seems to bring about a BBC interview, but the page looks to have been taken down. I'd be interested to know if there's any offline coverage in Jersey media, where the team he played for are quite regularly covered, but I'd say weak delete for now. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 19:00, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

  This is all thats left of that BBC interview & have bolded the only notable thing. BBC: "We've gone from level seven of the pyramid to level two and we're now disappointed that we've lost to a team who are 14th in the nation."

  Brennan, 31, is the club's longest-serving player and in his 10th season at St Peter.

  He has been part of the island side which has been

  Jersey gained a bonus point from the weekend's match which leaves them six points above bottom-placed Doncaster.

  "We're not really looking at Doncaster, we're looking at our games," added Brennan.

  "We're looking to have our destiny in our own hands which we still do, we don't want to rely on other teams losing." PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 02:05, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Found this stats site, but I don't have any money to pay for it. https://www.itsrugby.co.uk/players/brennan-jon-27005.html PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 02:01, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Got his net worth($5 Million) from this page: https://allfamousbirthday.com/jon-brennan/ PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 02:09, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• • Happy to update my vote to Weak keep given the sources added. It's still close on GNG, however there's clearly sourcing out there such as has been added. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 09:58, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
• Keep in light of multiple sources added to the article, which was a woefully undersourced stub before but has now been expanded; unreferenced claims have been removed by nominator in line with BLP rules. Longest-serving player on the Jersey Reds, with 200 appearances during its ascent through six leagues to the RFU Championship; named to the RFU Championship Dream XV at the end of their first season at England's second-tier of rugby, at which time he was one of only a few Jersey-born players left on the team. More than enough coverage to satisfy WP:BASIC, which allows us to combine content from multiple independent sources to establish notability. Strongest national coverage for notability purposes are "Legend Brennan Ready for Siam Cup Farewell" on ITV, and The Guardian article in 2013 on the rapid ascent of the Jersey Reds, which has several paragraphs on Brennan (although some of those are direct quotes); Brennan was also interviewed in the BBC Sport article, "Jersey prop Jon Brennan says they have the quality to stay up". There is a lot of other coverage besides chronicling his career, and as a side note, there seem to be an awful lot of articles which feature his photo prominently (suggesting that he really was the "face of Jersey rugby" for an extended period). Cielquiparle (talk) 07:02, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 14:20, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Keep. Since listing, the article has grown from stub status to something with numerous sources and references. There seems rot be enough articles featuring him specifically. Article was lacking info but this AfD has managed to turn it into a good piece.

RodneyParadeWanderer (talk) 16:40, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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