Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allen Scotting
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This appears to be a hoax.
- A simple google search for Allen+Scotting yields only links to obviously unrelated law firms.
- A search of the Charlton Athletic website yields no mention of a footballer of this name.
- There is no mention of a footballer of this name on the Gillingham Football Club website. Shirt58 (talk) 12:13, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- This article is definitely not a hoax. There is a link in the article (and has been ever since it was first created) to Barry Hugman's site, where the player is clearly listed as having played professionally for Gillingham. He also has a listing in this book and a full-blown profile in this book, both of which corroborate his professional playing career and either of which I am happy to scan and send to you. -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:36, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, and by the way, your claim that there is "no mention" of him on the Gillingham website is demonstrably untrue, because he is profiled here (for some reason you only searched the "current streaming video content" section of the site, and it is hardly surprising that a player who played 30 years ago isn't covered in that particular section) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:40, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- He also has a profile on this site (albeit with his name spelt incorrectly), which again verifies that he played professionally for Gillingham -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:44, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, and by the way, your claim that there is "no mention" of him on the Gillingham website is demonstrably untrue, because he is profiled here (for some reason you only searched the "current streaming video content" section of the site, and it is hardly surprising that a player who played 30 years ago isn't covered in that particular section) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:40, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- This article is definitely not a hoax. There is a link in the article (and has been ever since it was first created) to Barry Hugman's site, where the player is clearly listed as having played professionally for Gillingham. He also has a listing in this book and a full-blown profile in this book, both of which corroborate his professional playing career and either of which I am happy to scan and send to you. -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:36, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:42, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Speedy Keep - as ChrisTheDude has stated, the article is clearly not a hoax which was the basis of the nomination and the player passes WP:NFOOTBALL having played in a fully professional league. Kosack (talk) 12:46, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Delete - three appearances, according to this back in the 1980s (to technically meet NFOOTY), meaning his playing career is now over is not enough when he comprehensively fails GNG. Some COMMONSENSE is needed here, and plenty of AFD precedent exists to say that barely passing NFOOTBALL is not enough when you fail GNG, see Oscar Otazu, Vyacheslav Seletskiy, Aleksandr Salimov, Andrei Semenchuk, Artyom Dubovsky, Cosmos Munegabe, Marios Antoniades, Scott Sinclair, Fredrik Hesselberg-Meyer, Matheus Eccard, Roland Szabó (2nd nomination), Metodija Stepanovski, Linas Klimavičius, Takumi Ogawa, Nicky Fish and Andrei Nițu, amongst others. Fenix down (talk) 13:18, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Keep per WP:NFOOTY as he has made an appearance in a FPL Seasider91 (talk) 14:41, 29 March 2017 (UTC)