Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Russell

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The result was speedy keep: self-closing as nom withdrawn and unambiguous keep. →

Billy Russell

One line stub about a second tier youth soccer team, who has managed the first team on a few occasions. As far as I can tell, fails WP:BIO. No independant sources found beyond management stats. →

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  talk • contribs) 21:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep - he played over 450 league games for a number of clubs. This wasn't mentioned, but I've remedied that. ArtVandelay13 21:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per ArtVandelay13 Daemonic Kangaroo 21:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Can you source his appearances, please? I can't find him in Soccerbase as a player. BlueValour 03:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • He predates Soccerbase, but he's in the Football League Players' Records, 1946-2005, by Barry Hugman. ArtVandelay13 04:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I've created an infobox, using data extracted from www.allfootballers.com, which only covers the English leagues, so the Celtic data is missing. Daemonic Kangaroo 06:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Withdraw nom and speedy keep much improved! →
  talk • contribs) 10:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Strong Keep Played hundreds of league games, thats notable. -- Mattythewhite 11:23, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep given the details of his professional career. Robotforaday 13:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Keep -
  WP:SNOW. BlueValour 15:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep - 450+ league appearances easily meets
  WP:BIO. I believe he was also a Scottish junior international. - fchd 17:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Definite keep as clearly meets
  WP:BIO now that full info on his career has been added ChrisTheDude 08:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply
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