Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birger Persson

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was redirect to List of FC Basel players. This seems like the best decision, no real indication of GNG, but a plausible search term and the player is noted in the wider list article. If GNG can be shown at a later date I've no problem with someone being bold and undoing this edit. Fenix down (talk) 21:40, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Birger Persson

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1 game of football in 1912 is nowhere near enough when failing Wikipedia guidelines otherwise. Geschichte (talk) 20:21, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:33, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:33, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:33, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:37, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails GNG, which is far more important than scraping by on NFOOTBALL. Giant Snowman 21:18, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Dear friends, this kind of discussion about events that took place over 100 years ago is somewhat objectionable and disconcerting. Yes, one proven league match in two seasons is not very many, but then the season had only 14 league matches, but then many more friendly games. In the text it states he also played friendly games. Friendly games also took time to organise and the travel to get there was not just sit in your car and drive there quickly. In most matches we cannot prove which players were involved, because the records no longer exist Aarau-FCB, FCB-YB, Stella-FCB, FCB-Biel, Aarau-FCB, YB-FCB, FCB-Stella, OB-FCB, Bern-FCB and Biel-FCB and that is 10 examples of the 14 league games in the 1910–11 season. FCB-Nordstern, LcdF-FCB, Sporting-FCB, Biel-FCB, FCB-Biel, YB-FCB in the season 1911–12. This article about the player Birger Persson is a small part of the history of the club FC Basel and if deleted, would smaller my attempt to document the club's history. Please take this into account when voting for or against deletion. Please do not destroy the club's history just because a few 100 year old match records are no longer at hand. In adition to all this, a notification from you abou this AFD on my talk page would have been honorable. Geetings from Switzerland --Huligan0 (talk) 01:14, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Huligan0 For these low-bar players, you might be better off combining them into a list. Govvy (talk) 11:47, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the positive suggestion. --Huligan0 (talk) 20:01, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete playing in one game should never be considered enough for an article, sort of like how having one significant role in a notable production is not enough to have an article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:02, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Statement I've spent an evening analysing the problem. My mistake was that I did not pay enough attention to the fact that many records from before World War I either no longer exist or are incomplete. I was working backwards in time and by players with more seasons, a couple of missing matches did not have that much of an affect. I have now modified the article, removed that statistics and replaced them with a footnote, have also added slightly modified pros and a different ref. I will await your feedback before adding further pre-war players. Greetings --Huligan0 (talk) 20:08, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of FC Basel players - very, very little is known about this player and it seems very unlikely that they can pass WP:GNG; I would prefer redirect to deletion as it's a plausible search term and it looks like they didn't play for any other club. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 14:09, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I am happy with a redirect. Giant Snowman 21:29, 31 January 2021 (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.