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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 16:17, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Daryll Meggatt

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Fails GNG. A search in the archives found no SIGCOV just mentions in match reports. Dougal18 (talk) 13:56, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and Scotland. Shellwood (talk) 16:43, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Found a few interviews (1, 2), but nothing approaching WP:SIGCOV. JTtheOG (talk) 06:31, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 18:14, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 18:19, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Lean towards Keep Per sources above, plus [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], And he has played way over 100 professional football league games in Scotland. I don't get why you want to delete such an article on professional Scottish footballer. @GiantSnowman: Take your pick on sources, there are loads more tabloid articles on the guy. That's just my five minutes of looking. And I bet there are OFFLINE also! :/ Govvy (talk) 21:51, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment You have linked to 7 sources. The first 6 are namedrops that do not provide SIGCOV of Meggatt. The seventh is from the Scottish Sun which is an unreliable source. NFOOTBALL is no more so stop making the appearances argument. Dougal18 (talk) 08:42, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  Agree with Dougal I'm afraid - none of these are SIGCOV, and the Sun is trash. Giant Snowman 16:24, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - I don't know why you guys don't do the research or look for sources. Dougal18 has absolutely no interest in constructing wikipedia articles from my point of view. He constantly wants to delete what I call decent articles. Like I said above that's what I found in five minutes yesterday, yes the article is heavy on primary sources and sport stat sources. I provided an assortment of some basic secondary to back the primary sources up, (that's why I said lean towards keep I didn't say straight out keep.) But that doesn't negative anything, I never mentioned NFOOTBALL either, I go by WP:BASIC, and so many many people seem to ignore you can have a build on secondary sources. Take one of Scotlands newspaper websites go enter his name and see what you find. For instance, The Scottish Herald, how many results are there. A non notable person wouldn't have that many results for his name. People go on about it's always routine coverage! But all football is pretty much routine now, it's a paradoxical sport, routine coverage is not a bad thing and the more the better. SIGCOV pfft, you don't need to follow so blindly a policy and yes it's a policy it's not a rule of state. Apart from JTtheOG no one else provided sources, I've done just that and yet you want to persecute my findings. That really is pathetic and bias towards deletion without a true peer review. Govvy (talk) 09:49, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Nowhere close to SIGCOV. JoelleJay (talk) 20:47, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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