Deletion of Thomas Austin (cricketer)

Comment: passes  and he took a fifer in his first-class career
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NCRIC)

Comment: Passes . The nom made a recent Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(sports)#RfC_on_NCRIC|failed RfC to remove the said notability requirements. Since then, they have tried to circumnavigate this by making mass redirects instead. The nom has said that they "Special:Diff/995494268|have no beef with Lugnuts", however following their failed RfC, have seemingly gone out of their way to target artciles I've worked on. Another Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_135#The_criteria_of_WP:NSPORT_here_are_too_inclusive|RfC on sporting articles closed with the comments "As with the RfC on secondary school notability, this should not be an invitation to "flood AfD with indiscriminate or excessive nominations". And yet, there have been 25+ AfDs logged by Fram in a 15/20 minute window, indicating no  was used
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NCRIC||WP:BEFORE)

Comment: Meets . Nominator didn't do a WP:BEFORE to show the opposite. The nominator nominated (automatically) a large amount of cricketeers. It would have been better to made a bunch of them in one nomination. As seen above, the nominator is not willing the write a reply at everey AfD
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NCRIC)

Comment: Has played in 9 first-class matches, so meets . Probably other sources in NZ avaliable for him as well
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:CRIN)

Comment: The obituaries clearly provide the coverage required to establish notability under , which has absolutely nothing to do with importance or distinction. Even if Austin failed , which he does not, that policy is *only* relevant where a subject does not have GNG notability. I find it amazing that Fram should be redirecting articles without going through the AfD process first. That no doubt over-rides the good practice of notifying the creator. If we were dealing with a print encyclopaedia, some deletionism  would be needed, but we are not, and it is now the greatest handicap WP suffers from
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NCRIC)

Comment: Notable early Otago cricket and rugby representative. Meets  having played nine first-class matches for Otago over 12 seasons, and remembered as a fine all-rounder in newspaper reports in the 1940s, over 50 years after he finished playing. Also played five rugby matches for Otago in the early days of interprovincial rugby, and was one of the pioneer orchardists in the Tasman area, which would go on to become one of the main apple-growing areas of New Zealand
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NCRIC)