Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Len Bathurst

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 12:16, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Len Bathurst

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WP:HOAX. No player with the surname Bathurst has played in the English Football League since the Second World War (verified via leading stats sites such as Soccerbase and Soccerway, the 2015 edition of the book listed under refs, and a similar player records book published in the 1980s). I also own the Rothmans Football Yearbooks for most of the seasons during his supposed career and none of them show a player of this name playing for the teams he was supposedly a regular with at the time. If this man does exist, he definitely didn't play professional football. -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:34, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:35, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Seems to have been created by one person, an account with one edit! Not so promising there. We can also ask SmartVandelay who knows about Northampton if a player like this name ever played for them. But if it is indeed a hoax then delete per nom. Govvy (talk) 07:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - As per nom, no evidence of this player existing. The one thing you can find online about him was almost certainly taken from Wikipedia. Sgubaldo (talk) 08:11, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - If it is a hoax, it's one of the oldest extant ones on the platform, having existed for 12 and a half years. Sgubaldo (talk) 08:14, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Once it's deleted, I will add it here -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No mention of Bathurst in Crisp's Crewe Alexandra Match by Match (and I don't recall anyone by that name playing for the Alex in the 1980s). Paul W (talk) 08:32, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and England. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete Thanks for everyone's work, all evidence points to this being a hoax. S.A. Julio (talk) 13:57, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me. Giant Snowman 18:07, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Due to lack of WP:V. Svartner (talk) 18:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: It has two interwikis in completely different languages. How to notify them? Geschichte (talk) 19:33, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a hoax Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 01:30, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete: All evidence points to a hoax. Waqar💬 18:16, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete per Waqar (G3). Aydoh8 (talk | contribs) 03:01, 8 May 2024 (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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.