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Herbie Smith (cricketer)

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Masscreated LUGSTUB. No evidence of a WP:NSPORT pass - sole claim to notability is having played one (1) game of first-class cricket. FOARP (talk) 09:49, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Cricket, and Australia. FOARP (talk) 09:49, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. I couldn't find anything on Trove apart from a couple of brief mentions in match reports ([1] [2]). There seems to have been another cricketer named Herbie Smith who played in New South Wales, but about 20 years earlier. Couldn't find anything to indicate notability here. MCE89 (talk) 10:24, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

  There was also a Herbie Smith that played Aussie Rules. FOARP (talk) 10:58, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

• Worst case here is to redirect to List of Victoria first-class cricketers, preferably with a note added with his basic biographical details. There's a clear WP:AtD and the long running consensus for articles such as this is that that's an appropriate action to take, preserving the page history and allowing for exapansion should sources be found. Trove might throw up stuff - perhaps linked to Collingwood who he played for at club level - but I'm unlikely to find the time to dig too deeply in to it. Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:27, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

  I'm OK with redirection as an ATD though in this case, given the number of people with the same name (including another cricketer who played in NSW?), redirection to Victoria seems a bit questionable. FOARP (talk) 21:00, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

  There's no other Herbie or Herbert Smith listed on CricketArchive - which has a deeper database than CricInfo - that I could see challenging notability from a cricket perspective. Given the name that's something of an achievement actually. It has no mention of the NSW bloke either, so not sure at what level he played. It wouldn't be unreasonable to move it to Herbie Smith (Victoria cricketer) if you felt that were necessary, although someone might move it back claiming there's no need to dab. It's a future possibility anyway Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:09, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

• Redirect to List of Victoria first-class cricketers per Blue Square Thing. Vestrian24Bio 07:30, 25 April 2025 (UTC)