Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Spanos

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The result was Nomination withdrawn. Evidently "Australia A" refers to the full Australian national team; I'll be aware of this next time. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 12:31, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

John Spanos

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Appears to fail WP:NFOOTY and WP:GNG; there's no in-depth coverage in reliable sources, and the article's previous claim to notability, that he played for the full Australian national team, seems to be incorrect; he played for the A team, not the full team. He also doesn't seem to have ever played for a professional team; the NSL wasn't fully pro. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:29, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:20, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:20, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - he's listed as cap number 303 in Football Federation Australia's list of full international players. Unless they've recategorised the match between Australia and Indonesia on 7 December 1980, he meets WP:NFOOTBALL. I think the nominator has misinterpreted the footballwa.net profile. In Australia, "A international" means "full international" whereas other matches are referred to as B internationals. Hack (talk) 10:30, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Mr Spanos played for Australia against Indonesia in 1980, as verified by both sources present in the article. That match is a full FIFA international as verifiable at FIFA's fixtures and results search page. And there's a reasonable amount of contemporary coverage from the Australian papers available via Google news, if anybody fancied expanding the article. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:12, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Struway2 (talk) 12:19, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Per Hack and Struway2. Mattythewhite (talk) 12:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - meets WP:NFOOTBALL; needs improving to meet WP:GNG, not deleting. Giant Snowman 12:31, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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