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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wilfred Bird

: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.

Withdrawn based on a more detailed search of Wisden - searching without quotation marks brings up his obituary, and whilst it's very marginal for SIGCOV it's worth giving a chance. ‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. FOARP (talk) 09:25, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

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Mass created article by Lugnuts. Clear WP:NSPORTS fail since the only coverage is in databases, a passing-mention in an auto-biography ({{tq|"I remember three first-rate wicket-keepers: Wilfred Bird and A.C.P. Arnold, both killed in the war, and R.S.M. White."}}), and a brief mention in a listicle on a non-RS site. Since this young man was sadly cut down in his prime during WW1 it is unlikely that anything more would be found.

DeProd'd by St. Anselm on the grounds of {{tq|"significant coverage in Wisden"}}. However, a search of the Wisden Almanac using [https://search.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/almanack/search.html?search=%22Wilfred+Bird%22&x=64&y=2 this tool] brings up only one hit, an unrelated story about a bird being killed by a fast-bowler dated 1937. Even accounting for poor OCR, it seems likely that any coverage here will anyway be along the lines of passing mentions in match reports, if that. FOARP (talk) 08:31, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

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