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 Speedy Keep, if you look at the Athlete policy, Mr. Filho meets the criteria as he played professionally in a fully professional league. Further, I suggest someone familiar with the subject add more information and improve the information contained in the article. Non Admin close Dusti^SPEAK!! 19:56, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rivaldo Costa Amaral Filho[edit]

A journeyman player who is not well-known in Southeast Asia, let alone in Brazil. Should not be important enough to have a page in Wiki Frankie goh (talk) 13:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 14:09, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:ATHLETE as he's played in the S.League, a fully professional league. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 14:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Number57. Giant Snowman 14:52, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment While the players have met the basic WP:athletes criteria, his article is only created by a local Singaporean fan after he join a local club. By no means can we expect the article to be maintained or remain inportant to the local fans or the Brazilian fan should the player left the club. Furthermore, there is a lot of missing information about the player, showing his relative insignificant. 124.197.92.245 (talk) 07:42, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - the rationale that only one fan in Singapore is interested in editing this article is irrelevant, even if it were true. Wikipedia doesn't discriminate on basis of either the subject's or the editor's nationality. If someone or something is notable in a place, then, that notability carries forward to Wikipedia regardless. Neier (talk) 11:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep - per discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ram Shanker. He passes WP:ATHLETE explicitly. matt91486 (talk) 19:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, the article doesn't make his notability clear as well as it could but he passes the criteria as he has played professionally. Esteffect (talk) 19:58, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.