Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Mann

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The result was delete. Closing due to early consensus. Missvain (talk) 20:26, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jacob Mann[edit]

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Totally non-notable cricketer who fails WP:GNG and WP:NCRIC. He is known to have played cricket. That's really about it. The source (Ashley-Cooper) refers to him once as Jacob Man on p.36 in a list of players from a team. That's it (you can review the source here - it requires flash and is odd).

He's not mentioned at all in the short pen portraits Ashley-Cooper provides of other players (p.83 on) and the match he played in is not considered first-class cricket so he fails WP:NCRIC spectacularly. Him being active since the 1730s is obviously pure speculation. This seems to have been part of an attempt by an editor to list every possible cricketer they could find in any source from the mid 18th century. CricketArchive has no entry for either Jacob Mann or Jacob Man that could conceivably be this chap (there's a 2018 Derbyshire league division five cricketer, but that's clearly not the same chap). There is no notability at all that comes anywhere close to meeting the GNG. Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:21, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:21, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete; per nom, comes nowhere near meeting GNG. Only source is routine/indiscriminate statistical coverage. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 19:51, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:58, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom. A completely non-notable figure who would barely get a cursory mention on a Fandom site for the early development of cricket. RobinCarmody (talk) 00:59, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I am not able to find any substantive reference material about this individual, just brief mentions. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 12:43, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete sport specific criteria do not trump GNG. This article clearly fails GNG. It is high time we revised cricket notability guidelines to something that actually limits biographical articles to people we have in general at least some of a picture on who they were other than the few hours they played a cricket match.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:31, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, it doesn't really meet the cricket criteria either. Blue Square Thing (talk) 17:17, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - completely fails WP:GNG; if this went through AfC it would have been declined on the spot due to complete lack of notability; if this can be redirected somewhere then please do so but there's nothing of value to lose by deleting Spiderone 07:53, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- fails WP:GNG. The only sources are statistical database scrapes and no biographical information exists. Reyk _YO! 07:57, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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