Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Burger Geldenhuys

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 keep. - Mailer Diablo 07:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Burger Geldenhuys

Contested prod by the original author of article, so I'm taking it here for debate. Abstain --Arnzy ^{(whats up?)} 13:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. There was a speedy tag (not a prod) on the article, and I was afraid that the article would be speedily deleted, so I tried to fix it. I think the player's team, the Northern Transvaal Blue Bulls, were notable. I wish the original author had put together a more complete article so that other editors with little knowledge of the sport wouldn't have to improve it. -- TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 14:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - so far you only have one reference, could you find some more? Addhoc 14:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep "most capped player ever for a professional rugby team" is an assertion of notability. As an aside, the article needs cleanup and I'll work on it in the coming days hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 14:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. As above, he was the most capped player for one of South Africa's top provincial teams, which would suggest notability. There seem to be plenty of online references that could be used for an interim cleanup, I'll also put something together in the next few days. -- Mako 00:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep! Not only is he notable, but this is not the first time I have seen a rugby bio up for deletion. Going through the categories, it seems that rugby has a better quality of people bios that other sports. Looking at some soccer players, and rugby league players, it seems people have created them purely so there is not a red link on the team page. So if you want to nominate things, look there first, where people create player articles just so the squad is complete! Rugby has far less player pages, because MOST of them are at least a paragraph or two, soccer and rugby league have articles which are no more than a sentance or a pasted player profile! Burger is famous and notable. Wkto guy 13:51, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Apeedy Keep very important person, passes WP:BIO easily - Blood red sandman 13:42, 25 August 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.