Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Hobbs (footballer)

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The result of the debate was keep. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 14:29, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jack Hobbs (footballer)

Just forvarding an anon VfD, the reason being not notable. feydey 11:02, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

• Question--it says "Hobbs agreed to a pre-contract with Liverpool and will officially join the club on his seventeenth birthday. He also agreed on a three-year professional contract at Anfield and will be placed into the Liverpool Academy set-up."--Does this mean he doesn't actually see playing time at the highest level games? Is he in the equivalent of the minor leagues, or something like that? Meelar (talk) 13:38, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • He will probably play in the reserves or u-19 team first (there aren't any 'minor leagues' that he would play in, though some would argue that the Lincoln City team he was signed from could be considered to be - they play in a league 3 levels down from Liverpool) - but I can't actually find anywhere which says he'll be placed into the Academy (the Academy deals with the 'underage teams') set-up. Not to say that that won't happen though. There are other footballers out there with pages that won't get to see first team game time this season - should we delete/vfd their pages too (by the way this is a serious question, not a cutting remark - I'm pretty new to wiki)? Cursive 14:29, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, professional soccer player. Kappa 19:30, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep He's played first team football for Lincoln (albeit 3 minutes) and it appears that he is signing a professional contract with Liverpool, rather than a traineeship contract, so he's on the second rung of their squad ladder. Note for Americans: Liverpool are the European Champions, so he's not a young player at some average club. Osomec 04:56, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete vanity, maybe hoax. Never heard of him.  Grue  19:34, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Definately not a hoax [1], [2], [3], and very unlikely to be vanity - original author has plenty of edits [4]. Cursive 20:34, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable enough for inclusion, partly because Liverpool is a big club, partly because Arsenal (another big club) were close to signing him. Whilst I personally wouldn't have added an entry for him just yet (why him, and not any of the other young players Liverpool have, for example?), I certainly wouldn't delete the entry now it's here. KeithD 07:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

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