Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicolai Boilesen

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 in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 05:46, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nicolai Boilesen

Fails WP:ATHLETE as he has never played a game for his club Brondby IF. He is actually only in the under 17 team for Brondby according to club's website here (Danish). He has caps for Denmark youth sides but they do not warrant notability. Re-create when he plays a game. Sunderland06 (talk) 17:34, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 17:57, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, also see Christian Eriksen. Punkmorten (talk) 19:24, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No pro career or notable (per guidelines) accomplishments. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:16, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. -- Alexf^(talk) 22:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:48, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - fails WP:ATHLETE. Giant Snowman 11:21, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep I am tending to lean towards Weak Keep on notable citations. Govvy (talk) 12:16, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - multiple non-trivial independent sources as referenced in the article make him pass WP:BIO, even if he currently fails WP:ATHLETE - fchd (talk) 13:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think being mentioned is enough, and I don't see evidence of substantial coverage. ChildofMidnight (talk) 17:06, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Telegrah and Ekstrabladet articles don't just mention him, they are substantially about him. Both certainly contain more than trivial coverage, thus meeting the "Basic Criteria" of WP:BIO - fchd (talk) 17:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Not notable. Some of you should read a newspaper one day - they are full of little articles like the one(s) quoted every day of the week. Due to the internet and journo's wanting to sell copy, such articles are 'dime-a-dozen'. Having a little write up in a newspaper does not in itself make someone notable. Ask yourself whether the subject of the article has actually done anything more notable than any other kid that has had a trial at a professional club. There are far more notable kids than this one that still fail criteria--ClubOranje^Talk 00:41, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
While it's true that it may be impossible to find significant coverage of far more notable people than this one, that doesn't make him non-notable. If they failed some other "criteria" then the criteria are broken. Juzhong (talk) 16:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nor does it make this kid notable. He is just another kid that didn't quite make it yet. The point is that just because some journalist wrote a little article about someone, it does not mean they are notable. Wikipedia isn't about conglomerating snippets of information about all and sundry that get mentioned in a newspaper, it is an encyclopaedia - at least it is supposed to be, but one wonders sometimes with all the trivial nothingness that gets included these days. WP is fast becoming just another blog. I say delete article like this and ask those that want to actually build an encyclopaedia to write articles about things others may actually want to research one day. The only people who are ever going to look up this kid are a few of his old school mates. We have Bebo and Facebook for that sort of thing, yet I can find no WP info on Eyolf Kleven Jørgen Rasmussen or Steen Steensen Blicher.--ClubOranje^Talk 18:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are more notable people in the world, but he's not actually competing for space with them. Don't you think someone might actually want to read about notable youth players? Juzhong (talk) 19:38, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe so, but this kid is not notable.--ClubOranje^Talk 19:52, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Per nom. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 03:34, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Richard Rundle. Nfitz (talk) 05:03, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:N. Juzhong (talk) 11:05, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The coverage talked about above is not substantial. The short Telegraph article is as much about John Obi Mikel as it is about this Danish kid. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 22:13, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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