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[[File:Hobday_vs_Fraserbrough_United_2014-08-04_15-02.jpg|thumb|right|160px|Fraser Hobday in action for his club]]  
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There has been [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2811267/A-new-football-superstar-Player-Wikipedia-entry-big-Gary-Lineker-s-shame-plays-semi-professional-Scottish-Highland-League.html an interesting story circulating on the internet this week] about a young Scottish amateur footballer, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Hobday Fraser Hobday], who had a longer Wikipedia article than Brazilian World Cup star [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neymar Neymar]. The article has since been nominated for deletion by the Wikipedia community and this case raises some interesting questions.
There has been <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2811267/A-new-football-superstar-Player-Wikipedia-entry-big-Gary-Lineker-s-shame-plays-semi-professional-Scottish-Highland-League.html an interesting story circulating on the internet this week]</span> about a young Scottish amateur footballer, [[:en:Fraser Hobday|Fraser Hobday]], who had a longer Wikipedia article than Brazilian World Cup star [[:en:Neymar|Neymar]]. The article has since been nominated for deletion by the Wikipedia community and this case raises some interesting questions.


How do you decide what goes into an encyclopedia? It’s a tricky question and one Wikipedia and its millions of editors have debated since the site was created in 2001. What they settled on was the concept that to be included, a topic had to be ‘notable’. In short, a subject needs to “have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time”.
How do you decide what goes into an encyclopedia? It’s a tricky question and one Wikipedia and its millions of editors have debated since the site was created in 2001. What they settled on was the concept that to be included, a topic had to be ‘notable’. In short, a subject needs to “have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time”.

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