Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Williams (footballer, born 1976)

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The result was delete. Missvain (talk) 01:15, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Mike Williams (footballer, born 1976)

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Only claim to notability is from technically passing WP:NFOOTBALL for making one substitute appearance in a professional football match for Mansfield. I could find no evidence of being able to pass WP:GNG from this cameo or from his non-league career. Almost a carbon copy of Wayne Stark who also made just one appearance for the same club. He has a profile on Soccerbase but it's very brief. Spiderone 21:59, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 22:00, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 22:00, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

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Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone 22:02, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

• Delete, more Mansfield-cruft, and his non-league spells were very short-lived, a couple of months at best. Geschichte (talk) 22:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
• Comment: to the nominator who close AFDs with long disambigutators like this one has, please check if there are other Mike Williams (footballer, born xx) and maybe move them to just (footballer). Thanks, Geschichte (talk) 22:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

• No need, this article is one of four Mike Williams (footballer) articles. SportingFlyer T·C 22:14, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

• Delete - scraping by on NFOOTBALL is insufficient when there is a complete lack of coverage, failing GNG. GiantSnowman 11:04, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
• Delete it is time to redo our football notability guidelines to stop Wikipedia from turning into footballpedia. Or maybe it is to end Wikipedia being footballpedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:14, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

  Wikipedia isn't "turning into footballpedia", it's only AFD that is. Peter James (talk) 16:47, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

I agree with JPL here. It's simply absurd that someone can be presumed notable, in some cases, for playing one minute of their sport. Apply that to actors and then see how ludicrous it sounds. Spiderone 19:10, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

• Keep It's better to have a complete set of articles here for WP:NFOOTBALL than maintain a complete set on another site and a separate incomplete set here. Subject-specific guidelines are more important than WP:GNG as a reason to delete an article, there's no reason to say they shouldn't be as a reason to keep an article. Peter James (talk) 16:47, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Wholly non-notable in the context of a general encyclopaedia. Specialist Fandom sites are there for a reason. RobinCarmody (talk) 21:15, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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