Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shanka Jayasinha

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:11, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Shanka Jayasinha

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Article is devoid of WP:RS. A BEFORE search on Google News, Google Books, JSTOR, and newspapers.com fails to find any references under subject's name. Fails WP:NATHLETE. Chetsford (talk) 17:43, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 18:58, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Likely a hoax. The claim of being on the Monaco national team links to a roster reference which lists a Shanka Dias not Shanka Jayasinha in the roster. The claim to being on the university of Miam i football team in 2014 is contradicted by the team's web site which lists the 2014 roster with nobody by the name of Shanka on the roster. Considering that the Hurricane's are an NCAA Division I team, and the considerable coverage of college football in the US, it's rather telling there is absolutely no coverage of a "Shanka Jayasinha" playing college football. -- Whpq (talk) 19:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete An anonymous user had inserted the subjects name in the wikipedia article 2014 Miami Hurricanes football team, (stayed there for 16 months). On the teams web site isn't a Shanka Jayasinha on the 2014 roster (see Whpq's source). This looks like an attempt to fool the reader, or a hoax. The only remaining claim for notability is the National basketball team of Monaco, turnes out to be U16 and U18 Category C (small countries) European championships 2012 and 2014 [1] which fall under WP:YOUNGATH (High School athletes) and fail WP:NBASKETBALL. What remaines in the article is a young man who earned a bachelor degree in BA from the University of Miami. Ben Ben ^(talk) 20:11, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~I don't think the Monaco basketball team claim is true either. The source doesn't list the subject name on the roster. -- Whpq (talk) 20:15, 5 March 2018 (UTC)~~[reply]
  - I see in the archive that he has compound name of Shankar Dias Jayasinha. But agree that youth teams aren't usually notable. -- Whpq (talk) 01:21, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I saw nothing to back it up and the links are far from verifications. Waste of time even talking about. TVGarfield (talk) 21:24, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Does not seen to meet WP:NATHLETE. L293D (☎ • ✎) 02:46, 12 March 2018 (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.