Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jais Malsarani

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 06:01, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jais Malsarani

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Short version: Did not play for the national team and fails WP:NFOOTBALL.

Long version: Problems with WP:Verifiability. The question is, did he really play for the international team? I know that one source says so, mentioning his name in passing, but I'm having trouble corroborating that information.

Soccerway, which sometimes has complete information and sometimes nowhere near complete info, informs of him playing for youth teams, but not the senior international team. National Football Teams, usually better than Soccerway, has no entry for Malsarani and also includes Vanuatu's full lineup for the match in question against Fiji, without Malsarani's name. Footballcritic has Malsarani as an unused substitute, could it be that he "made his debut in the squad" but not in the actual game? It seems to. Needless to say, there are no other parameters whereby Malsarani could qualify for inclusion in Wikipedia. Geschichte (talk) 05:25, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - I trust National Football Teams on these matters. It's highly unlikely that he played in that match given what the reliable sources are saying, far more likely that he was an unused substitute, therefore not meeting WP:NFOOTBALL. It appears that his notability rests solely on this as well as I could find nothing even close to WP:GNG coverage on him. The article was probably a result of a good faith misunderstanding. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 07:10, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - fails GNG and NFOOTBALL. Giant Snowman 07:40, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per nom, fails GNG and NFOOTBALL CommanderWaterford (talk) 11:57, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 16:22, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Global Sports Archive lists him as an unused sub in that match. They show him as having been an unused substitute twice, without ever making an actual appearance. Nehme₁₄₉₉ 19:30, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Sonofstar (talk) 16:45, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nominator fails GNGAloolkaparatha (talk) 09:57, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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