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The result was Delete. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 03:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Martin waldron (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Biography of person of local interest; without supporting citations to establish notability recommend that a very brief item (line item) be added to Everton F.C. indicating the existence of the post this person holds and the person currently holding it. Article found tagged with Speedy via criterion G11 (I do not agree with that criterion) and with a 'hold-on' template in place from the author. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 23:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment by nominator - since AfD creation, a supporting link has been added, this to a staff listing on the Everton F.C. website. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 23:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Person is well known all over the North West of England, but more so in academy football specifically in the UK as well as Europe. Also gaining more attention thanks to the emergence of players noted in article. A senior member of Everton FC academy. Equivalents at other football clubs have pages, most of whom are less known. S6694 23:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC) — S6694 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
• Delete. "Well known" != "notable", necessarily. Well known by whom? I mean, please. "Head of Local Schoolboy Recruitment for Everton F.C." is the sole claim of notability. Well, everyone has some job; does this guy's job really put him into an ecyclopedia with Newton, Columbus, et. al.? (I know, we have much less notable bios than Newton and Columbus, but still, there's got to be a limit somewhere.) In fact, I think I'll vote Delete again, that's two votes. Herostratus 13:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • That exclamation point/equals sign thing drives me nuts, what's with that? Just H 01:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It means "does not equal", same as "<>". --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:19, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into Everton just as a sidenote or Delete Just H 00:31, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• (edit conflict) Delete. The article does not prove the notability of the subject and I was unable to find proof of such in a cursory Google search. All mentions of the individual seem to be trivial references. A news search produces one result that also mentions the subject of this article only trivially. -- Black Falcon 00:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and others. Every sports organization has scouts/recruiters etc. The organization's notability does not travel down unless the scout has been a subject of media coverage, and that does not appear to be the case here.--Kubigula (talk) 03:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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