Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Davis (footballer)

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus. Rob e rt 00:07, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Davis (footballer)[edit]

Player on the Sydney Swans list. Recreate the article when/if he actually plays a game. JPD 10:51, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Playing a game I find a rather non-stringent criterium still. One season in the base squad might cut it. - Andre Engels 12:06, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's worthwhile to cover the entire squads of major clubs, and he is at a leading club in Australias main sport, which has something like the 6th highest average attendance of any league in the world. CalJW 20:17, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep based upon the rationale provided by CalJW. Hall Monitor 23:41, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. His team just won the AFL Grand Final, one of Australia's largest sporting events, so I believe his entry is valid. Cnwb 00:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'm fine with creating articles on players - even those who have played very few games. But this guy hasn't even played one. It's vanity if I ever saw it. Ambi 05:00, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain. In principle, I don't like to vote to delete people, but I think that if we do -- and we do -- a criterion for sportspeople that they should have played one game for a professional club is not wholly unreasonable. This guy would be the absolute borderline, I think, if you took that view. Grace Note 05:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I am have been a Swans fan and passionate supporter of Australian football since a young age, and I still nominated this article for deletion. I don't think the importance of the sport or the team are relevant here. If he had played in the Grand Final, or even one game in the season, I would be more than happy to keep it, but as it is there's not much to go in this article, and no guarantee that there ever will be. JPD 08:38, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as per JPD, who seems the only knowledgeble one about the article at the moment. Proto t c 10:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As someone who has been creating these stubs, I am actually not sure...I know Matthew Davis has played a few games, but as a relatively new fan I think I will keep him. I mean if you're going to delete Matty Davis why not go ahead and delete Stevie Doyle as well? J L C Leung 17:42, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Doyle has played 40 senior games for the Swans, Matthew Davis has played 0. That's the difference from my point of view. Do we create these stubs for every player who has ever been on a team's list for 1 or 2 years? JPD 14:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

- Waitaminute...I thought he played at LEAST one. Maybe I could be wrong...but when I created all those stubs I looked at the Swannies' senior player page to start it all. So I really was quite blind to who has played a game at the AFL level or not...and besides, I did all those stubs at 4:30 in the morning two days after the qualifying final vs. West Coast. I'm sorta bound to make a mistake or two...! --J L C Leung 09:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The individual players' pages at the moment list all the games played by that player in the 2005 season. Nothing is listed for M Davis. He didn't play last year either. The only reason I nominated this article for deletion is because it seemed it must have been a mistake. JPD 10:08, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

weak keep. He appears to have been in the Swans' base squad for 2005, even if he never got onto the ground. --Scott Davis ^Talk 08:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Aussie rules is major sport. --MacRusgail 15:45, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge with the article on the club. No one is arguing it's not a major sport, but this guy didn't even play. Jonathunder 02:29, 7 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.