Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Dixon

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 delete. W.marsh 00:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terry Dixon

Youth player who hasn't played a professional game and thus fails WP:BIO. For the same reason I'm nominating Tomáš Pekhart. There's a number of other Spurs players on Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Reserves & Academy that haven't played a professional game, but they appear to be professionals and thus qualify under "squad players of a professional team" rule. HornetMike 00:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all - any others who are not listed in the First-team Squad should be added - being a full-time Pro is not enough. BlueValour 01:07, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. TJ Spyke 01:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete All per nom --NRS | ^T/_M\^B 10:08, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. Any others? Yes, there probably is. Bubba hotep 12:08, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Very Strong Keep See this BBC report.[1]. It indicates that he is a rising star in football. Article is very informative to me because I have craze in football .Dr.khan 14:44, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's a full member of the Republic of Ireland senior squad, but doesn't have any caps yet. I still think that's enough for me. Bpmullins 15:31, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per Bpmullins. If he subsequently sinks without trace, deletion remains a future possibility, but at present, being a 16 year old training with the national side is noteworthy. Kevin McE 22:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. Edgecution 20:07, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per above. --Kf4bdy ^{talk contribs} 02:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nomination. This BBC article [2] makes clear Dixon's callup to an unusually large (29 man) Ireland squad was for training purposes and he was not under consideration for the match in question. Qwghlm 08:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strongly keep now he's a rising star and is notable for that, we'll see in future what to do. (you should delete also Jean Carlos Chera, Giovanni dos Santos, etc... crazy!) --necronudist 09:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
  • To be honest, I'd vote to delete Chera if it ever came up, he's only ten years old! ChrisTheDude 11:53, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks for spotting these, Necronudist, Jean Carlos Chera now listed. BlueValour 19:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Qwghlm 09:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete without prejudice to recreation if their respective careers advance in future, but as it stands these articles are crystal balling. Oldelpaso 18:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete but perhaps this raises the issue of whether a Tottenham (or any other pro club) Youth Squad page should include short bios of all these kinds of players Superlinus 12:12, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's notable for being picked for Ireland's senior squad aged 16 and without even any reserve team matches — if nothing else. He's notable from media reports. The only thing people can hold against the lad is that he hasn't played any games. On all other levels he's far more notable than almost all players below Premiership level. aLii 14:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment: Is he, though? If Terry Dixon was to tear a ligament or something and his career ended it wouldn't get on the BBC Football website. Sol Davis' stroke did, and so does injury/transfer news of other players lower down the football pyramid. HornetMike 14:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

If such an unfortunate incident were to happen, then Dixon would gain notability of being a player lost to the game. I'm sure that you wouldn't argue that Kiyan Prince should be deleted because he had played no professional games. Dixon has already garnered national media attention for being a footballer, which in my opinion is enough. aLii 15:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

If a teenager with no first team experience suffers a career ending injury, they don't gain "notability as a player lost to the game", they just become some bloke who nobody's ever heard of who nearly became a professional footballer once upon a time. Kiyan Prince is a completely different case. His notability has nothing to do with football, he is notable for being a murder victim whose case received lots of media coverage, the fact that he happened to be a QPR youth team footballer is incidental. ChrisTheDude 21:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all reserve & academy players. Unless they have played a professional / international game, they are not notable. (If Dixon had played for ROI then I would suggest the page be retained but inclusion in a summer training squad is not sufficient for notability). -- MLD · T · C · @:  15:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. --Angelo 00:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all notability missing. Tulkolahten 16:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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.