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Delete - He has not played in a fully pro league or received significant coverage, meaning the article fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NSPORT.
Sir Sputnik (
talk) 08:22, 15 July 2015 (UTC)reply
I just did a Google News search for "lee seung woo" football - got 721 articles, and many of them feature the subject as the main focus of the article. I'd argue that that constitutes "significant coverage", and as such, passes
WP:GNG. Just my 2 cents.
Rockypedia (
talk) 21:29, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep - per above comment by Adnan n2
DjlnDjln (
talk) 12:55, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep and improve. There's a ton of reliable third-party references available for this subject; a five-second Google search is all it takes to see that. Spend 5 more seconds to go to Google News and you see articles from as recently as 6 and 11 days ago; he's obviously achieved some level of notoriety already. Even without having played pro anywhere yet, he's obviously the most well-known South Korean youth player ever; that alone probably would merit an article, and on top of that you have all the coverage of the controversy with Real Madrid and Barcelona fighting over him, all documented in reliable sources. I don't see how anyone calls this a delete.
Rockypedia (
talk) 16:19, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
In the interest of full disclosure, I was contacted on my talk page and alerted of this discussion; I don't know if that's against the rules or not. Regardless, I don't even remember editing this article, but looking at the history, I see that I just made some minor grammar and spelling fixes, and took out some non-NPOV adjectives and such. I have no connection with the subject of this article, and haven't had any contact, prior to this, with anyone on either side of this debate.
Rockypedia (
talk) 16:19, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
I did contact you , and I didn't know your opinion about this when I did, neither I knew you before , but it seems for me people didn't really knew there was such a discussion for deletion that's why I notifed few people randomly never had any contact with them before .
Adnan (
talk) 17:56, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Clearly sufficient note has been taken of him. Similar in some ways to the
Raheem Sterling situation where he received lots of coverage before he'd played a pro game - another good example where thinking beyond guidelines is a good idea. --
Michig (
talk) 06:53, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep Meets
WP:GNG with features in
Marca and
ESPN. I don't usually support football youth bios that don't meet
WP:NFOOTY, mainly because I think the media has an unhealthy fixation on the sport and is willing to publish any type of rumour or hype. But I came across the article while searching for the "Korean Messi", hoping to find something on
a female pro footballer and instead found tons of links about a 17 year old based in Spain. Digging further, it turns out that Lee was
one of the six players that precipitated the current FIFA transfer embargo at Barcelona. Coupling that with his successful international youth career has me leaning support. And that is before looking for coverage in Korean sources under 이승우.
[1][2]Fuebaey (
talk) 15:47, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment Someone provide further links for club career part. Just one link supports the whole category.
NextGenSam619t@lk 12:16, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
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
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
Delete - He has not played in a fully pro league or received significant coverage, meaning the article fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NSPORT.
Sir Sputnik (
talk) 08:22, 15 July 2015 (UTC)reply
I just did a Google News search for "lee seung woo" football - got 721 articles, and many of them feature the subject as the main focus of the article. I'd argue that that constitutes "significant coverage", and as such, passes
WP:GNG. Just my 2 cents.
Rockypedia (
talk) 21:29, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep - per above comment by Adnan n2
DjlnDjln (
talk) 12:55, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep and improve. There's a ton of reliable third-party references available for this subject; a five-second Google search is all it takes to see that. Spend 5 more seconds to go to Google News and you see articles from as recently as 6 and 11 days ago; he's obviously achieved some level of notoriety already. Even without having played pro anywhere yet, he's obviously the most well-known South Korean youth player ever; that alone probably would merit an article, and on top of that you have all the coverage of the controversy with Real Madrid and Barcelona fighting over him, all documented in reliable sources. I don't see how anyone calls this a delete.
Rockypedia (
talk) 16:19, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
In the interest of full disclosure, I was contacted on my talk page and alerted of this discussion; I don't know if that's against the rules or not. Regardless, I don't even remember editing this article, but looking at the history, I see that I just made some minor grammar and spelling fixes, and took out some non-NPOV adjectives and such. I have no connection with the subject of this article, and haven't had any contact, prior to this, with anyone on either side of this debate.
Rockypedia (
talk) 16:19, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
I did contact you , and I didn't know your opinion about this when I did, neither I knew you before , but it seems for me people didn't really knew there was such a discussion for deletion that's why I notifed few people randomly never had any contact with them before .
Adnan (
talk) 17:56, 18 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Clearly sufficient note has been taken of him. Similar in some ways to the
Raheem Sterling situation where he received lots of coverage before he'd played a pro game - another good example where thinking beyond guidelines is a good idea. --
Michig (
talk) 06:53, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep Meets
WP:GNG with features in
Marca and
ESPN. I don't usually support football youth bios that don't meet
WP:NFOOTY, mainly because I think the media has an unhealthy fixation on the sport and is willing to publish any type of rumour or hype. But I came across the article while searching for the "Korean Messi", hoping to find something on
a female pro footballer and instead found tons of links about a 17 year old based in Spain. Digging further, it turns out that Lee was
one of the six players that precipitated the current FIFA transfer embargo at Barcelona. Coupling that with his successful international youth career has me leaning support. And that is before looking for coverage in Korean sources under 이승우.
[1][2]Fuebaey (
talk) 15:47, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment Someone provide further links for club career part. Just one link supports the whole category.
NextGenSam619t@lk 12:16, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
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