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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 11:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kieren Keane[edit]

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No evidence that this football (soccer) player has ever played or coached at a professional level (I removed some stats from the infobox which suggested that he had but they were blatantly fake). No evidence of passing GNG, all I could find online is passing references to an unremarkable semi-pro career and the odd reference to him being a friend of Jay DeMeritt, which obviously doesn't confer notaility -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:49, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:50, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and England. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:04, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Can't find any strong evidence of notability. WindTempos ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:05, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me. GiantSnowman 16:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete. Article looks like a CV, which does not belong on Wikipedia as discussed in WP:NORESUMES, and has been the target of ongoing vandalism. At first I wondered why the article was such a magnet for vandalism – most notably, his name had been changed to "Karen Keane" for 18 months and no one noticed – but if I had to guess, it's actually because he is a well-loved soccer coach to kids. Newspapers.com turns up several mentions, photos, and quotes of him as a youth coach (e.g. this Chicago Tribune article and an article in a local paper mentioning his involvement in local community outreach through Bridges FC). As both the article and the nominator mention, Kieren's greatest claim to fame is as best friend to soccer player Jay DeMerit, and there are many, many newspaper articles discussing their friendship like this one in the Vancouver Sun and this one in The Province – how Kieren convinced Jay to play football in the UK; how they backpacked together; how Jay and Kieren crashed at Kieren's mother's house in London back in the day – but alas, there is very little otherwise about Kieren's own early football career. Otherwise, he was mentioned in USA Today in 2022 as agent to Ricky Hill, who is suing Major League Soccer and other parties accusing them of racial discrimination. In summary, Keane has had an interesting career (and great action shot contributed to Commons), but unfortunately it doesn't quite add up to telling a coherent story about him and his career as a football player, coach, and scout. Weak delete because if at least one article were found focusing more on Keane and making an argument for notability, we might be able to combine all of the pieces to satisfy WP:BASIC *and* write a coherent article. (At the very least, I will add a sentence about Keane on the Southall FC page now.) Cielquiparle (talk) 19:36, 30 September 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.