Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lance Mulligan

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The result was delete. Missvain (talk) 01:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lance Mulligan

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Only claim to notability is from technically passing WP:NFOOTBALL for playing one minute of professional football for Mansfield; a totally inconsequential substitute appearance at the end of a match. I could find no evidence of being able to pass WP:GNG from this one minute cameo or from his non-league career. Almost a carbon copy of Wayne Stark who also made just one appearance for the same club. Spiderone 19:41, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom - scraping by on NFOOTBALL is not enough when GNG is failed so comprehensively. Giant Snowman 21:10, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete it is high time we stopped treating people as notable for appearing in just one game. This is just plain silly.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:02, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Even more silly that someone can pass this notability standard for playing just one minute! I bet some streakers have had more time on the pitch than Mulligan!! Spiderone 21:13, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It's better to have a complete set of articles here for WP:NFOOTBALL than maintain a complete set on another site and a separate incomplete set here. Subject-specific guidelines are more important than WP:GNG as a reason to delete an article, there's no reason to say they shouldn't be as a reason to keep an article. Peter James (talk) 16:56, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

At the very top of WP:NFOOTBALL, it says This guideline is used to help evaluate whether or not a sports person or sports league/organization (amateur or professional) is likely to meet the general notability guideline, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia. NFOOTBALL is merely a guideline to help us decide whether something will pass WP:GNG. If someone comprehensively fails GNG, it's fair to say that scraping by on NFOOTBALL is insufficient. Mulligan is an amateur footballer who just so happened to play one minute (one minute!) of a game between two professional teams. Spiderone 19:04, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Utterly ludicrous that this article was ever created. He is a wholly non-notable figure who probably would only have a stub entry even on a Mansfield Town Fandom site. RobinCarmody (talk) 21:20, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree. The funny thing is, if the ball didn't go out of play at all towards the end of that match, Mulligan would never have made a one minute cameo and would never have had an article! Spiderone 10:09, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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