Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcio Carvalho (Magic: The Gathering player)

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The result was delete. Limited discussion, but the one "keep" must be discounted because it merely asserts inherent notability without basis in a community-adopted guideline or policy, and does not address the sourcing problems.  Sandstein  19:42, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Marcio Carvalho (Magic: The Gathering player)

Marcio Carvalho (Magic: The Gathering player) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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no coverage outside primary sources and blogs Prisencolin (talk) 23:36, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - It's been quite a while since this issue was meaningfully addressed at AfD. With overwhelming agreement across seven deletion discussions (see discussions on Brian Selden, Tommi Hovi, Darwin Kastle, Kai Budde, Mike Long, and Jon Finkel, twice), it's fairly clear that there is a consensus that the top Magic: The Gathering players are notable. On that basis, WP:MTG established some guidelines as to when an MTG player is notable, which Carvalho meets. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:58, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The WP:MTG guidelines allow for pages that don't otherwise meet GNG requirements. Many of these pro players articles just lack reliable, secondary sources, plain and simple and so shouldn't exist on WP as standalone articles. Note that per WP:LOCALCONCENSUS "... unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope. " Also note that an WP:ALTERNATIVE, a fan wiki that covers the MTG pro scene, exists. So its not like this information would be lost if not for wikipedia.--Prisencolin (talk) 03:45, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 06:50, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 06:50, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Portugal-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 06:50, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I got about 100 hits for "Marcio Carvalho" mtg, and none of the results looked like anything but fansites, primary sources, or blogs. There doesn't seem to be enough coverage here to justify an article, and a WikiProject's local consensus can't override the GNG. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:52, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• +1 for delete. There are many MtG players more notable that Carvalho and they do not have wikipedia pages (nor should they). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:fa00:9:1:a8c4:98cb:e181:c505 (talk • contribs)

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.