Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Birch (footballer)

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The result of the debate was ALREADY SPEEDIED, but not by me. -Splash 01:33, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Birch (footballer)

Not sufficiently notable, possible vanity article. This person is a 14-year old football (soccer) player, who has just played for a few obscure schoolboy teams. Delete PatGallacher 17:41, 2005 July 14 (UTC)

• Delete. Well-written vanity, but still vanity.--Scimitar ^parley 18:02, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity. Dcarrano 20:32, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Vanity. --Durin 20:51, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Should we lump Pannal Sports Panthers in with this VfD? On initially seeing these articles, I was going to put them up for VfD. However, my not being a resident of the country in question left me in doubt as to how notable this sort of thing was. Given coverage by the BBC [1], I held back. I still think they should both be VfD'd though. --Durin 20:51, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
  • I did very seriously consider this myself. However, looking into this, the club does have some mention on BBC sports pages. Also, loooking at e.g. the Category Scottish football clubs, a fairly large number of British junior football teams already have entries, we could end up doing a hatchet job. I suppose as Wikipedia is not paper we could set the threshhold fairly low in this case. Nevertheless there are limits, this person should still be deleted. PatGallacher 23:12, 2005 July 14 (UTC)
• Delete vanity. but good wiki-writer. an effort should be made to bring this individual into the fold. --jonasaurus 21:45, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn vanity. --Etacar11 01:05, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Okay, now that I have more information this guy does look non-notable. (On a side note, if the writing style people seem to like has anything to do with my editing, I'm flattered.) --Alynna 04:06, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

im dan birch. i am sorry if i put myself in this. i just felt like it, i want my team to get coverage. sorry if i made a mistake. if u want ill delete it.

• Don't worry, Wikipedia can be a bruising place at times. I probably did some silly things myself when I was 14. I've seen some adults do stupider things than this on Wikipedia. I don't think you can delete the article yourself, but if you accept that it should be deleted we can treat it as a speedy delete. I'm not sure if an article on your football team would be OK, but if you write a reasonable article on the league they play in, or your school, or the town where you live that would probably be OK, although I'm afraid I can't promise anything. PatGallacher 10:36, 2005 July 15 (UTC)

Im not sure. i just want to say that i reckon we footballers shld be able to write profiles Dan Birch

By the way, my article was not a breacg of vandalism, it is perfectly realistic and dont listen to the other boys. delete theirs! they are commiting breach of conduct. Dan Birch 14:54 (at School!)

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