Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aidan Dowling

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 17:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Aidan Dowling[edit]

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PROD rationale by User:Joseywales1961 was Fails the notability guidelines of WP:NFOOTBALL as he has not yet played a game in a fully professional league per list at WP:FPL, fails general notability.

Contested because the article was previously deleted in June 2008 when the subject was 5 years of age.

His only appearances to date have been in the English 7th tier, which is three whole tiers below professional football so I agree that NFOOTBALL is comprehensively failed. Coverage is routine and trivial and falls short of WP:GNG clearly. The only decent source is this Lancs Live article but even this is little more than a basic contract announcement followed by a quote from the player. The actual independent analysis is very limited. Even if this is considered a good source, GNG clearly requires multiple sources of significant depth and I couldn't find evidence of this online. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:54, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:54, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:54, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete - fails GNG and NFOOTBALL. Giant Snowman 21:15, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - the deleted 2007/2008 article was about a completely different person (Irish cartoonist). Giant Snowman 21:15, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You might well be right, I didn't notice that the age of this subject would have made that obvious. Not a huge deal, an AfD is just a PROD with more support, even if it might not have been strictly necessary. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 15:09, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per my original PROD reasoning, fails GNG and NFOOTBALL JW 1961^Talk 18:03, 20 December 2021 (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.