Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eddie Anaclet

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. --Core desat 02:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eddie Anaclet

Fails WP:BIO as never having played in a fully professional league. The article states that he's played in the FA Cup, but there are many amateur players that play in the FA Cup every year. If he does play in a professional league, the article can be recreated. Delete until then. robwingfield ^«T•C» 23:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. Malcolmxl5 23:24, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - yes, many amateur players play in the FA Cup, but this player played in that competition while playing for a professional, League 2 side. Is this notable enough. GiantSnowman 23:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was a 20 minutes appearance as a substitute[1]. --Malcolmxl5 23:49, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. jonathan (talk — contribs) 23:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The name rings a bell from Football Manager, but fails WP:BIO and should be deleted. --Mkativerata 23:47, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. —Signed by KoЯnfan71^{My Talk}_{Sign Here!} 00:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. He played in the FA Cup while a professional with a League Two side, which is very different to players playing in the FA Cup while with non-league clubs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiGull (talk • contribs) 19:13, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment just like to add that my comment above is based on consistency and the agreed rule on notability of footballers. WikiGull 10:47, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. On the article it says he has played for Oxford 55 times.--Sunderland06 19:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Oxford United play in the Conference National, an amateur league. robwingfield ^«T•C» 19:54, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment - The Conference is not an amateur league, it's a semi-professional league made up of mostly fully professional teams. Also where Oxford play now is not relevant, it's where they were when a player played for them. As a Reading fan, do you have a bias against Oxford by any chance? WikiGull 11:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
'Keep per WikiGull, and he played for Southampton. Stifle (talk) 20:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment He never played for Southampton ChrisTheDude 20:48, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. WP:BIO says that the bar of notability is playing in "a fully professional league". Eddie Anaclet has never played in a fully professional league. Sunderland06 states that he has played for Oxford 55 times. That's true but Oxford United play in the Conference, a semi-professional league. Stifle says he played for Southampton. Not so! He was a trainee at Southampton but never played in the first-team. WikiGull contends that playing for 20 minutes in the FA cup makes him notable. The FA cup competition is not a fully professional league and a 20 minutes appearance is no basis for long term historical notability. A very definite delete, I'm afraid. --Malcolmxl5 21:03, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Would this still be the same if this was say, Bury, a current league team, and not Oxford, who at the time he played for them were a league team, but are not any longer? What about when one of the Premiership teams plays their reserve goalkeeper in the FA Cup to give them a game. Do we delete them? WikiGull 09:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not sufficiently notable. Wikipedia is hugely inclusionary towards athletes, but this is just a bridge too far for me. Can you say that this persons life is "encyclopediac" in the ordinary sense of that word? Delete. --Legis (talk - contribs) 00:44, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Has not played in a fully-professional league (WP:BIO). пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 16:58, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.