Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marss

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 00:11, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marss

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The article have used a lot of unreliable sources and fails WP:GNG. Did WP:BEFORE but found only this trivia coverage from Kotaku [1]; thus zero WP:SIGCOV. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 06:01, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Video games. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 06:01, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The unfortunate reality is that there just aren't many high quality sources covering esports. ESPN shuttered their coverage, the listings at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Esports are pretty small press, and many are region-specific or esport-specific to MOBAs. However, I think I cobbled together enough from the best sources that were available to pass the bar of WP:GNG. At the time that I wrote the article, they were a professionally signed player with major tournament wins, and considered one of the best players in the world in a notable esport by the community-accepted ranking system (If Red Bull is a RS and they devote extensive coverage to the Panda Global rankings, that should be enough). It's been a long time since I participated in AfD, so I'm out of practice and that's the best argument I can make at this time. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:59, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
1st ESPN source was good, the 2nd is usable but those are not enough. Other sources might be also reliable, but it just have trivia coverages (not sigcov, and wouldn't notability). 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 07:22, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Rhode Island-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:49, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 06:44, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Is not notable and seems to not be encyclopedic. There are many tournaments and people win each time, but no page exists for most. Ramos1990 (talk)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:10, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The player was part of two esport teams with articles already. Leaning delete; would cover them there, where relevant, and perhaps redirect if wanted. IgelRM (talk) 20:54, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as most of the sources are just not reliable or don't provide the WP:SIGCOV needed for WP:GNG. If preferred I'd also support a redirect to one of the teams they played on but I don't really think that's possible since he didn't have a more significant role in one over the other. Sophisticatedevening🍷^(talk) 20:11, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - sourcing too weak/minimal/noncomprehensive to support the WP:GNG of a WP:BLP. Sergecross73 msg me 19:23, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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