Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jay Bhula

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. While the first part of the nom isn't a reason for deletion, the second part is. --Coredesat 03:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jay Bhula

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Cricket in the United States just isn't a major sport. Plays for organzations that don't merit their own articles. Citicat 04:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - Non-notable and the article seems to have been orphaned for a bit--$UIT 05:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Google brings up no hits other than mirror sites. www.cricinfo.com doesn't list him, and they list everyone. The alleged "source" link cited is actually a link to a page on the (somewhat better known) Anil Kumble, not this guy. - iridescenti (talk to me!) 10:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above, fails WP:ATT, WP:BIO. Does the United States even have a generally recognized "highest level" at which cricketeers can play?  RGTraynor  17:08, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment - I'd say only if they played for the United States national cricket team - presumably anyone that good would be playing professional cricket in England, India etc instead of staying in the US so would qualify that way. - iridescenti (talk to me!) 18:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep - Cricket is bigger in the U.K., nominating it for deletion just because we in the U.S. don't care about it would be presumptuous. (Do they watch it in Australia, New Zealand, or Canada?) Anynobody 07:57, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: It's not presumptuous at all. This isn't about the relative importance of cricket; it's about the relative importance of this player. Just because baseball is a big sport in the US doesn't mean that WP:BIO needs to be changed to encompass non-notable Pakistani first basemen.  RGTraynor  13:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: Yes, cricket is very popular in Australia and New Zealand (and a lot of other mainly ex-Commonwealth countries). However, a 15-year old schoolboy cricketer isn't going to be notable whichever country he's from (Delete). EliminatorJR ^Talk 20:57, 7 April 2007 (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.