Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Weah, Jr.

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The result was Delete. JERRY ^talk _contribs 22:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] George Weah, Jr.

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Son of a notable player, but seems not yet made his professional debut and without a club. Matthew_hk tc 08:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - as per nomination. Also notability is not inhereited. - fchd (talk) 09:01, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Fails WP:BIO as he has not played in a fully professional league. пﮟოьεԻ 57 11:53, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
• Comment - does representing the American Under-20 team not give him notability? GiantSnowman (talk) 12:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Comment He just played in friendly match for U20 team. And differ from Olympic team, U20 team player were not yet notable. Matthew_hk tc 12:13, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

In that case Delete. GiantSnowman (talk) 13:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually Keep based on Jogurney's rationale. GiantSnowman (talk) 13:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep Although he has not played in a fully professional league, there is a good amount of non-trivial coverage of the player in several reliable sources. In my opinion, the article meets notability on that basis. Best regards. Jogurney (talk) 15:55, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Fails WP:BIO, not played in a fully pro league, media coverage is only because he's George Weah's son. Struway2 (talk) 09:34, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep per Jogurney BanRay 22:15, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
• Comment how about Christian Maldini? Few article mentioned his name means nothing. 203.185.57.117 (talk) 19:42, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Maldini Jr is a child-player, not an adult player like Weah Jr. and hasn't recvd the same amount of coverage. GiantSnowman (talk) 13:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Has not yet played in a fully professional league, and does not merit an article in his own right until that happens. Perhaps attracts more attention than others because of his highly notable father, but just because father is notable does not mean that he is. Robotforaday (talk) 22:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I checked and Junior was the subject of at least 2 CTK (Czech News Agency) articles related to his October trial at Slavia (no mentions of the father as far as I can tell - but I don't read/speak Czech). The Independent covered his signing with Milan's primavera. He also received coverage from the BBC with respect to his exploits with the USA U-20 national team. I'm struggling with other coverage (I don't speak/read Italian), but it seems to me that he has more coverage than the typical U-20 national team player. Best regards. Jogurney (talk) 02:25, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - the fact that at aged 20 he has not started for a professional club surely indicates he is not good enough to be notable? If he is any good then sooner or later he will get a start or a full cap and he can then have a page. If we keep this page and he never makes a start then we shall be stuck with a page on a 'might have been'. BlueValour (talk) 20:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO. Additionally, I doubt he would have ever received all the claimed coverage (not enough, in my opinion) if he wasn't George Weah's son. --Angelo (talk) 20:31, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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