Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathon Tiffoney

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The result was delete. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathon Tiffoney

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Contested PROD. Concern was: A search for references failed to find significant coverage in reliable sources to comply with notability requirements. This included web searches for news coverage, books, and journals, which can be seen from the following links:
Jonathon Tiffoney – news, books, scholar
Consequently, this article is about a subject that appears to lack sufficient notability. (PROD-nn) Having only ever played in Scottish Second Division, he fails WP:NSPORT, and there is insufficient coverage for him to meet WP:GNG. PROD was contested without explanation. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Just to point out that the correct spelling appears to be JonathAn rather than JonathOn, which may affect search results. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 10:35, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - fails WP:NFOOTBALL and WP:GNG. Giant Snowman 12:29, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Non-notable footballer. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL. Argyle 4 Life^talk 20:18, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment My recollection (from somewhere that I'm failing to locate now) is that the Scottish Football League is recognised as an awkward marginal case on the Football notability criteria, as a mix of full and part time teams and even players within teams? Even with that, Tiffoney may at this point be a marginal case anyway, but it's worth pointing out that he has also played in 3 games against Scottish Premier League clubs during 2011. AllyD (talk) 22:51, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- It's the SFL First Division that has a mixture of mostly fully professional and a few (sometimes none) semi-professional clubs. Tiffoney has only played in the Second Division, which is mostly (if not wholly) semi-professional. He plays for Ayr United, which is currently a semi-professional team. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 07:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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