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The result was keep. The AfD participants unanimously agree that this player clearly meets WP:ATHLETE, since he is a member of both national and professional teams. The nomination was not based on established notability guidelines, and thus closed early. JamieS93 ^{Only You Can Prevent Drama} 23:47, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gary Thompson (soccer)[edit]

Gary Thompson (soccer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Non-notable John 03:26, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Being a member of the Vancouver Whitecaps meets the notability criteria for WP:ATHLETE. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 04:19, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Played for the Canadian national football team. Jevansen (talk) 09:01, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Some mistake surely, played for the national team....Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 13:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, played for national and two fully professional leagues, meets WP:ATHLETE in spades --Saalstin (talk) 18:33, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as above Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:24, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as noted, playing member of a national team is notable. Resolute 22:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: per the !votes above. Iowateen (talk) 02:32, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. NASL and a Canadian national team. What a bizarre nomination! Nfitz (talk) 18:40, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Keep Clearly meets notability guidelines for athletes. Edward321 (talk) 23:50, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. --Jimbo^[online] 13:24, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Obvious keep, passes WP:ATH by a long-way - played in fully-pro leagues and international level. Would it make sense to close this AfD as per the snowball clause? --Jimbo^[online] 13:30, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy keep - a former professional AND an international? Clearly passes WP:ATHLETE, what a ridiculous nomination. GiantSnowman 13:32, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - easily passes WP:ATH. Don't understand non-notable claim in nom. Rlendog (talk) 16:03, 15 July 2009 (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.