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The result was nomination withdrawn. Sir Sputnik (talk) 13:28, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dejan Bandović[edit]

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It's been six years since the last deletion, but the underlying notability concerns remain the same. He has still not played in a fully professional league or received significant coverage, meaning the article still fails WP:NSPORT and WP:GNG. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:49, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:49, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:42, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:43, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bosnia and Herzegovina-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 03:07, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete and SALT - fails WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL. GiantSnowman 07:42, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I expanded the article. Passes GNG with flying colors, having won the 2013/14 national cup, and the 2015/16 national league. Even more notably, he became widely known in the region for the 2017 "Cener affair", duly recorded in the article. WP:BEFORE, anyone? No such user (talk) 09:14, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Fails NFOOTY as has not played or managed senior international football nor played or managed in a fully professional league. No indication that subject has garnered significant reliable coverage for any other achievements to satisfy GNG. The instance of him rejecting a bribe is WP:BLP1E. Fenix down (talk) 11:28, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep - although a number of the sources below are simply routine transfer talk, sources 2 and 3 indicate GNG. Fenix down (talk) 08:59, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. How is the following not an application that the subject has garnered "significant reliable coverage for any other achievements":
  • [1] Coverage of his Velež-Sarajevo transfer, 2012
  • [2] Interview to Radio Sarajevo, 2013
  • [3], interview, 2014, where he was qualified as "one of best individuals in the match against the neighbors"
  • [4] Invited to national team, but ended short of playing a match, 2014
  • [5] Coverage of his Sarajevo-Olimpic transfer, 2015
  • Vast coverage from 2017, and the affair, now in the article.
  • For what it's worth, the Premier League became fully professional in 2016-17 season.

  And all this coverage is subject of multiple published[2] non-trivial[3] secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent,[4] and independent of the subject. (WP:SPORTBASIC)

  What we have here is a solid, long-standing player in a country's top-tier league, on the verge of the national team. Who also has won the national championship and cup. And is notable for a role in a sports affair as well. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS notwithstanding, what's the reason to nominate the one actually notable player among the crowd at Category:FK Olimpik Sarajevo players? Is e.g. Almir Pliska, with 1 reference, automatically notable because he played 2 caps for Partizani Tirana back in 2014, in supposedly fully-professional league? No such user (talk) 14:11, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Keep - Fails NFOOTY as having not played in a professional league or a national team but may pass WP:GNG per the references and content No such user has provided. Inter&anthro (talk) 01:37, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep passes WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 02:35, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. I feel like I must be missing something here, but the article subject clearly meets WP:NFOOTY: he's listed as a first-team player for FK Olimpik, which is part of a a fully-professional league by the standards of WikiProject Football. If he's played any matches for them — which is likely as he's a first-team player — then that meets criterion 2 of NFOOTY. Even if he doesn't, it seems like there was extensive coverage of the bribery scandal he was involved in, which meets the bar of WP:GNG. A Train^talk 10:35, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  @A Train: – the missing pieces is that I updated the FPL page during the course of this AfD, as it became FPL in 2016, and nobody has updated FK Olimpik recently – they don't play in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina anymore, and were relegated in the meantime. Still, as I discussed on FPL talk, that's a pretty lousy criterion for "borderline professional leagues" such as Bosnian, Macedonian or Montenegrin. No such user (talk) 12:52, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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