Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Payne (umpire)
without a doubt. To illustrate the point:  suggests that a top-100 record in any significant market is notable enough. Cricket is a major sport in much of the English-speaking world, and a Test match umpire (even one from the 19th century) is therefore more relevant to the English Wikipedia than a singer who reached number 97 in Italy in 1974 with a song no-one outside that country has ever heard of
— User:Loganberry, 00:05, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:MUSIC (Wikipedia:Notability)