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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 06:04, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Balac[edit]

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Hasn't been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources, failing WP:GNG Hack (talk) 03:34, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:24, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:24, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:24, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - Article is clearly well-referenced and meets CRIN. If you have a problem with the sources, please say so elsewhere. Article has been cleaned up since the PROD tag was placed with suitable references, if you have a problem with these references, AfD is not the place to complain. Bobo. 10:24, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. First-class cricketer, meets WP:CRIN. StickyWicket (talk) 16:22, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Tend towards Redirect to List of Warwickshire County Cricket Club players. The player technically meets CRIN, yes. But the circumstances appear unusual here: essentially he appears to have been a Warwickshire player for a very short period of time - all three of his matches for the Second XI were played between 11 June and early July, as was his sole first-class match, essentially as a guest filling in for other players in a non-competitive match. I'm fairly certain he never signed a professional contract for example. That doesn't give me hope that we're going to find a great deal of additional coverage other than what is currently in the article: which is made up of information culled from data sources and from routine, passing references in news articles about his one first-class appearance.

In otherwise, this case is much more nuanced. It is not straightforward at all in my view.

In these circumstances my general feeling is that it's unlikely we'll find much more in the way of coverage of him. My one hope is that there's a photograph on CricketArchive of him, so it's possible that there may have been a match guide produced in July 2008 that will give us something more in depth - i.e. something other than purely passing references or statistics. If Warwickshire produce a year guide then there may be something in the 2009 edition of that - although I'm far from convinced that there will be.

So, on the grounds that there are no in depth sources likely to be available to show notability in this case, I think for now I'd be happier with redirecting the article - personally, I'd add a footnote to his entry on the Warwickshire list. I appreciate that this is a little more complex argument, but I don't believe this is a simple case. Blue Square Thing (talk) 18:09, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The amount of appearances in FC cricket may be less but meets WP:GNG in accordance with WP Cricket. Abishe (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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