Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dylan Buckley

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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Go Phightins! 00:05, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dylan Buckley[edit]

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Contested PROD. Australian rules player that as far as I can determine has never actually played a single pro match, at least according to the bio in the website of the team that drafted him. Seems to be the son of a famous player however, notability is not inherited. §FreeRangeFrog 06:12, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. WP:GNG is met. I had to rewrite the article as it was a copyvio from his club profie page. WP:AFL is a little bit more lenient on articles for currently listed players than WP:FOOTBALL or some other sports, mainly due to the tightly restricted squads - they are only updated once a year (which is the draft, the main one is actually happening later tonight), they are then fixed for the season, there are no "academies" or youth teams that may have players that are called up during the year, etc. Whilst notability isn't temporary, if a player is later delisted without playing in the AFL, then it is likely I would vote redirect to a team player list article, unless there is significant coverage. But given the (in some people's opinion) saturation coverage of the sport, especially in Melbourne, it isn't hard to find significant coverage in independent reliable sources on most high draft picks, or in this case, a Father-Son Rule selection (so in AFL, notability can be inherited!). The-Pope (talk) 20:11, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Just look at the sources already in the article, he's had articles written solely about him in some of Australia's biggest newspapers. Clearly meets GNG. Jenks24 (talk) 04:10, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn Per WP:WITHDRAWN, while project inclusion guidelines (in this case AFL) do not trump top-level ones, I see the subject of this bio meets at least WP:GNG as an athlete given the sources in the article already. If someone other than myself or the !voters here wants to do a non-admin closure, go for it. §FreeRangeFrog 00:12, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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