Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Emmerson

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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 18:51, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Emmerson

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Fails WP:GNG (which superseeds WP:NFOOTY). A player who happens to have played twice for a Football League team is not inherently notable and there is no evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 12:10, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 12:12, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:14, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:14, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:15, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - meets WP:NFOOTBALL; there are plenty of sources out there, though none that I can see from a very quick Google search that would class as "significant", but I have concerns about nominator failing to WP:BEFORE. Giant Snowman 20:03, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I accept I could have tried to improve the article but I didn't see the point if the subject is not notable. I know there are sources on and offline that this guy existed and played in the Football League and he may well have been mentioned in the local press at the time but all of those sources only indicate that he played in two football games. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, that's why we have GNG. Including *every* footballer who played in two football matches - in some cases even three or four matches - and did *nothing* else is not for Wikipedia. NFOOTBALL is only a soft rule which presumes there will be other sources to establish a footballer's notability over and above the standard statistical sites but not every one/two/three appearance wonder does generate significant coverage. Most of them don't. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. We simply don't need articles like this. If we had multiple articles about comparably low-level players in non-Anglosphere countries I might accept articles like this, but not as things stand. RobinCarmody (talk) 22:21, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - after much searching, I found a passing mention in the Northwich Guardian and a similarly brief mention in the Staffordshire Sentinel. No evidence of WP:GNG being met. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:10, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Current sources available are not enough to make his page stick on Wikipedia. Grailcombs (talk) 14:35, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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