Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edin Lynch (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 12:49, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Edin Lynch

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non-notable footballer Chief Minister (Talk) 09:47, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Chief Minister (Talk) 09:48, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete the old AfD from December 2020 still applies here. SportingFlyer T·C 10:02, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete as per SportingFlyer - the old AfD was actually closed and the page deleted earlier this year. Nothing's changed either in the information presented or the arguments from January. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 10:49, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - still doesn't seem to meet WP:GNG and now signed for a club in the third tier of Scottish football so can't see even a good argument for draftifying currently. Recent coverage is nothing more than a sentence about his transfer in Daily Record. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:30, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and SALT per consensus ta last AFD, and a trout to @Fragglerock52: for re-creating. Giant Snowman 13:13, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete My apologies everyone. I thought that appearances in the Scottish Championship qualified a player as meeting the guidelines - but from reading up on the updated guidelines that does not appear to be the case any longer. I also didn't realise that a page on the same topic had already been deleted previously. FYI two further pages I created a few years ago might also need deleted? Ross Lyden and Kyle Prior as they only made a limited number of appearances in that league - which was not fully professional at the time? I'll leave that over to you guys to decide. Thanks. F.

@Fragglerock52: there is still consensus that the Scottish Championship was fully pro until 2019-20 so those other footballers do (although only just) pass WP:NFOOTBALL. Lynch doesn't as his appearances came at a time that it was clear that there were semi pro players in that league, therefore we were not able to call it a fully professional league as per WP:FPL. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:53, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:47, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Spiderone: Fair enough. Although it's strange. The Scottish Championship has rarely been a fully pro league. In the 2016-17 season there were two part-time clubs (Dumbarton and Ayr United) just as there was last season. I understand that it wouldn't be effective to change the guidelines season-by-season though. Especially for a small league! Take care, F.

Delete - As others have said, under current guidelines does not meet notability requirements. Dunarc (talk) 22:54, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Doesn't meet notability criteria. Non notable player. Fails GNG. TheDreamBoat (talk) 03:24, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all above. However, given the player is still active and could meet NFOOTY in the future and the article was recreated in good faith, I would be opposed to SALTing as some have suggested. Smartyllama (talk) 18:25, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I would tend to agree - as I said in the previous AFD he his young enough that he could yet meet notability (eg by playing in a fully professional league), and the recreation of the article was clearly done in good faith. Dunarc (talk) 18:47, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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