Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gideon Meitlis

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The result was keep. Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 22:28, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gideon Meitlis

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fails WP:GNG Joeykai (talk) 03:16, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and Israel. Joeykai (talk) 03:16, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as major player in a top flight team, capping 165 appearances. Most of the sources are in Hebrew, גדעון מייטליס, because he played in Israel. Most of the sources are also offline or in archives that only allow partial text searches on bad OCR columns, for instance is a search for his name in the Maariv newspaper and most of them are relevant to him. He is honored as one of the team's greats.חוקרת (Researcher) (talk) 05:40, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:00, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep clearly passes GNG.--Ortizesp (talk) 01:50, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
lean towards Keep There are certainly a number of good looking hits in Hebrew searches, Govvy (talk) 15:43, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above, there looks to be sufficient significant coverage to show notability. Giant Snowman 13:14, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~. I do not see any WP:SIGCOV in WP:RS. Also, the excellent Hewiki is mum about him. Nonetheless, the emerging consensus is that Meitlis is notable. Do let me know if I missed out on anything! gidonb (talk) 03:21, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - he made 165 appearances in the Israeli top flight and there are many sources about him. Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 18:17, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: חוקרת has provided a link to potential sourcing, but there is no discussion of there is significant coverage in that newspaper. I would like to point out that the number of caps a person has at any level of professional football is no longer a policy-based reason to keep after the demise of WP:NFOOTY and it was given no weight in my read of the consensus here.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 21:29, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I want to comment that you won't find sources online for the 50s and 60s in Israel. What is online is items like this from 2007 that covers a ceremony honoring him before a game. To get at source from the 50s and 60s you need to search the individual newspaper archives, only some of which are open freely online, and all suffer from very bad OCR if they have OCR at all. The Maariv archive search is one newspaper that is available online, and he's there. He should also be in the other major newspapers of the 50s and 60s, but they aren't as easy to search. חוקרת (Researcher) (talk) 06:30, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes GNG. Simione001 (talk) 01:13, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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