Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin McCool with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

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The result was merge to Colin McCool. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 11:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Colin McCool with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948[edit]

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This is another article with the same issues that Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 had (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (2nd nomination). McCool did not play a single test with the team in England, and didn't do much as part of the team in general. There simply isn't enough to justify this fork off of his main article at Colin McCool. The "role" section is the only thing here that's actually encyclopedic; it should be merged into Colin McCool if there's anything there of significance not already there. This fork even admits such:

"A frontline leg spinner and middle-order batsman, McCool was not prominent in the team's success."
"he was one of two squad members who did not play a Test on tour. Along with Doug Ring, the trio called themselves "ground staff" because of the paucity of their on-field duties in the major matches and they often sang ironic songs about their status."

The prose here is largely sourced from statistics and fails to demonstrate the need for this fork. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:08, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:08, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:08, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:08, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The tour is adequately covered in the player's article. St Anselm (talk) 17:15, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Colin McCool, didn't play a vital part in the tour (no test matches) and so doesn't generate GNG coverage of him in relation to the tour, so he doesn't really need a standalone article on his involvement in the tour. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 10:37, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Colin McCool. The most persuasive arguments made regarding during the Ring AFD apply similarly here. Prose is mostly contrived from statistics and scorecards. McCool's involvement in the tour could be (and pretty much is) adequately summarised in a single paragraph in his bio. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 12:55, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect or I guess merge if there's anything really merge-worthy. I don't think any of these should have independent articles. Elli (talk | contribs) 16:29, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect or merge. Why were these even created? JoelleJay (talk) 19:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That is a question I have long been struggling to find the answer to myself. Far as I can tell, it was an attempt to spam GAs and FAs to create a featured topic, by making lots of questionable forks and recycling much of the text between articles over and over again. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 01:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I have no idea why these articles were created, but the main driver behind them produced a lot of very good articles. I'd assume good faith please. Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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