Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Subroto Das

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 keep. The recent trend at AFD has been more skepticism of sports biographies where the subject had minimal professional play, but in this case the subject's larger number of appearances and the possibility of non-English sources has led to the benefit of the doubt. RL0919 (talk) 21:57, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Subroto Das[edit]

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Subject fails WP:SPORTCRIT and WP:GNG due to lack of significant coverage. A search per WP:BEFORE did not turn up any significant coverage. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 14:40, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Cricket and India. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 14:40, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:53, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep based on him playing in nearly 50 first-class matches would indicate that there must be some coverage of him somewhere in non-English sources. Or redirect to List of Bihar cricketers, per WP:ATD, WP:PRESERVE, WP:R#KEEP and WP:CHEAP. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 16:32, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This player has played nearly 50 first-class matches, so the chances of there being no coverage in local non-English sources is virtually nil. As a rule of thumb, the more matches someone plays, the more coverage that is likely to exist. StickyWicket (talk) 18:07, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep This player's obviously played a large number of FC/LA matches, so coverage likely exists in either offline (given the time he played) or in non-English language sources. Played for a few teams, so no real suitable redirect here. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 19:26, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
At the very worst there is a redirect possibility (which needs a lot of work), but it's not unreasonable to make an assumption that a player who took part in so many matches would be very likely indeed to have received coverage, some of it no doubt in non-English language media - likely Hindi or Urdu but the looks of it - or in media that there is no accessible online archive for. So I'll err on the side of preserving the article and vote to keep here. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:20, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bihar-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 13:34, 29 May 2022 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.