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• See also: Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board

Chanan Gordon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Contested draftification (and declined G11) on highly promotional bio of non-notable individual. Appears to be WP:ADMASQ. Sources demonstrate failure on WP:GNG, WP:NBIO. They are limited to:

• WP:PRIMARYSOURCEs: Official bios and the subject's own podcasts etc. ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]), database sources ([10], [11]), the subject's own writing ([12], [13], [14], [15]).
• Non-independent sources: [16],
• Primary source Q&A interview: [17],
• WP:TRIVIALMENTIONs: [18], [19], [20].
• One source that doesn't mention him: [21]

Nothing else qualifying was found in a BEFORE search. Dclemens1971 (talk) 22:51, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Businesspeople, and South Africa. Dclemens1971 (talk) 22:51, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tashrique Goldman (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Does not meet WP:GNG. Searches turn up stats pages. Otherwise the few sources available are brief mentions related to transfers, sometimes not even providing detail beyond first and last name, such as [22] or [23]. C679 09:04, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and South Africa. C679 09:04, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. C679 09:05, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 14:15, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 20:59, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dylan de Leeuw (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I am unable to find enough coverage of this rugby player to meet WP:GNG. There is this routine transfer announcement as well as this paywalled article. Even if the latter was SIGCOV (I'd appreciate if anyone could access it), we would need more coverage to warrant a standalone article. JTtheOG (talk) 22:38, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Rugby union, and South Africa. JTtheOG (talk) 22:38, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thai Poosam Kavady festival in South Africa (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This stub does not warrant a separate article. For a long time, the page was not about anything specific to South Africa [24] and only about Thaipusam itself.

Redirect to Thaipusam#Outside India. There is also another page titled Kavadi Aattam, which is about the same festival. This article is essentially a one liner The festival was first introduced to South Africa in the 1860s by indentured Indian laborers who worked on sugarcane plantations.

In a WP:BEFORE, the sources from The Citizen bring no additional information and have several local information but Wikipedia is not a tour guide [25]: For further information, contact _____ on XXX XXXXXXX. (mentions 5 such phone numbers)

The book sources do not have much [26].

When the festival is so much bigger in other countries that do not warrant articles such as Malaysia, it makes no sense for this article to exist [27]. DareshMohan (talk) 21:23, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Hinduism and South Africa. Shellwood (talk) 21:43, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:56, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge This is the kind of obvious thing you just do yourself without involving others. "If the need for a merge is obvious, editors can be bold and simply do it." WP:MERGEPROP. Reywas92^Talk 22:27, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also check the list at WP:PRODSUM