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The result was speedy keep. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:30, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Brown (footballer)[edit]

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One sentence stub with no in-line citations. The one link shows a few handful of games in England's lower leagues, but nothing beyond routine to show passing WP:GNG. --SuperJew (talk) 13:46, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• "Withdrawn by nominator" - withdrawing, as now that it has been expanded seems notable enough. Shame it takes 9 years and an AfD to get to that state. --SuperJew (talk) 20:10, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - a handful of appearances a number years ago (to technically meet NFOOTY) is not enough when he comprehensively fails GNG. Some COMMONSENSE is needed here, and plenty of AFD precedent exists to say that barely passing NFOOTBALL is not enough when you fail GNG, see Oscar Otazu, Vyacheslav Seletskiy, Aleksandr Salimov, Andrei Semenchuk, Artyom Dubovsky, Cosmos Munegabe, Marios Antoniades, Scott Sinclair, Fredrik Hesselberg-Meyer, Matheus Eccard, Roland Szabó (2nd nomination), Metodija Stepanovski, Linas Klimavičius, Takumi Ogawa, Nicky Fish and Andrei Nițu, amongst others. Fenix down (talk) 14:24, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Passes NFOOTY, has played senior international football, in a fully professional league or in a match in the competition proper (i.e. not qualifying rounds) of a cup competition which involved two teams both from FPLs. Also indications of GNG sourced below (my browser doesn't like soccerbase and it looked like he had made 3 appearances not 30 at first read). Fenix down (talk) 14:49, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Since when did 35 appearances at a fully professional level of English football, including 2 in the Premier League and a Football League Second Division title, equate to a "technical" pass of NFOOTY along the lines of a couple of games in the Russian third tier or one appearance in the League Cup? And I'd have thought this and this might not show a GNG pass, but they certainly show that he doesn't "comprehensively" fail it. Struway2 (talk) 14:38, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Fenix down (talk) 14:50, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:27, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep - meets WP:NFOOTBALL. GiantSnowman 16:57, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep (thanks Keresaspa for improving the references. The Manchester Evening News piece is verifiable and adequate.) Until this article can be improved with adequate referencing and actual content, it should be userfied if there's a volunteer or deleted. His name is listed on at least 4 articles. That's about as much detail as is provided in this stub. Hmlarson (talk) 17:32, 31 July 2017 (UTC)Hmlarson (talk) 20:01, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See also FD's deleted insights above:

"plenty of AFD precedent exists to say that barely passing NFOOTBALL is not enough when you fail GNG, see Oscar Otazu, Vyacheslav Seletskiy, Aleksandr Salimov, Andrei Semenchuk, Artyom Dubovsky, Cosmos Munegabe, Marios Antoniades, Scott Sinclair, Fredrik Hesselberg-Meyer, Matheus Eccard, Roland Szabó (2nd nomination), Metodija Stepanovski, Linas Klimavičius, Takumi Ogawa, Nicky Fish and Andrei Nițu, amongst others." Hmlarson (talk) 17:49, 31 July 2017 (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.