Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aston Villa youth players

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The result was Delete all articles. (aeropagitica) 10:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aston Villa youth players

This is a multiple nomination for the following articles: Zoltan Stieber, Adam McGurk, Chris Herd, Yago Bellon, Damian Bellon, Erik Lund, Shane Lowry, Danny Earls, Ciaran Clark, and David Bevan (footballer). All of these articles relate to football (soccer) players who play for the youth team of Aston Villa. None of these players have made a first team appearance or have been issued a first team squad number, and hence do not meet the WP:BIO guideline. Oldelpaso 21:25, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. Oldelpaso 21:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep sports figures are notable[1]. Arbusto 00:44, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - sorry but they are not; the standard is at WP:BIO. BlueValour 23:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all per nomination. Multiply this by the number of league clubs, and there are a whole lot of budding professional footballers out there. Some will make it big, some will fall by the wayside. These are not all that notable yet per WP:BIO, but may have their own articles one day. Right now, WP:NOT crystal ball. Ohconfucius 04:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete all except maybe the Bellon brothers if they played first-team football for St. Gallen. Punkmorten 12:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. – Elisson • Talk 14:47, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep Some of them have played first team games - Namley the Bellon twins, and also some if not all of the others won the FA youth trophy with aston villa - thus making them successful" Ianburnip 16:47, 4 September 2006 (UTC)This is the only contribution from this user. BlueValour 23:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

None of these players were members of the Villa youth side which won the 2002 FA Youth Cup final [2], nor the team which were runners-up in the 2004 final [3]. Neither Bellon has played a competitive first team game for Villa, and I have not found any reference saying either did so for St. Gallen. Oldelpaso 19:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all - fail WP:BIO. BlueValour 23:11, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all - they all fail WP:BIO at this point in time. Qwghlm 23:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all --Peta 06:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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