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The result was delete‎. plicit 05:29, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Christer Holloman (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Entirely promotional Amigao (talk) 17:36, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete per WP:TNT. This page was created 15 years ago by a SPA and tinkered with, but not improved much since then. I tried to fix it and gave up. (I've done more than my share of rescues in the past 3 months, so don't give me side-eye.) He might be notable, based on a couple of searches that I did. I actually don't think it's too promotional. Two more thoughts: (1) are LinkedIn links no longer used in External links? and (2) since the SPA hadn't been active in over 10 years, who would take over to userfy this page if needed as an ATD? Bearian (talk) 10:39, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete Article about a person with very little notability and no good secondary sources.
— Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 00:25, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: A one percent growth makes you notable? I've got savings accounts that earn more... This is PROMO that falls flat. the SPA editor doesn't help. This is a business person, but not notable. Oaktree b (talk) 01:37, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure)LibStar (talk) 22:04, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Réseau Art Nouveau Network (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Last AfD was no consensus. A search for sources found 4 short mentions in google news hits. A keep !voter in AfD claimed there were sources, I did not find any. Fails GNG. LibStar (talk) 23:52, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Jeffrey Martin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails GNG. The only sources that talk about him are WP:ROUTINE announcements related to the Sempra company, of which he became the CEO in 2018. This article was created by a self-described "employee of Sempra Energy". Badbluebus (talk) 22:53, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Lightson2019, I hope I'm not bothering you but it looks like you have a duplicate vote which doesn't necessarily make the subject more notable. 50.39.138.50 (talk) 22:08, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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:

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

Hossein Rahmati (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails notability, it was deleted once, but recreated again. he was invited to the national camp but never played for the NT in major events. never achieved anything important to make him notable. just playing in a league is not enough to become notable. Sports2021 (talk) 22:38, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hadron epoch (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This topic is not notable. Modern cosmology textbooks do not use it. Google ngram view says no ngrams. One primary source says "hadronic epoch". One primary reference with few citations mention term, that is not enough for an article. Already tried PROD. Please see Talk:Hadron epoch for additional information. Johnjbarton (talk) 22:34, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment: a term that is notable for this event is the "quark-hadron phase transition", but there's no page for that on Wikipedia. (There is a page for: cosmological phase transition.) Praemonitus (talk) 23:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I am a cosmologist and have not encountered this term outside Wikipedia (aside from non-expert sources who likely learnt it from Wikipedia). Even just looking at the physics, there is not a meaningful hadron epoch. Pions briefly contribute to the primordial plasma at temperatures between the QCD phase transition at 170 MeV and the pion mass of ~135 MeV, but even during that time period they only contribute a small fraction of the total energy density. This is even brief enough that there's no clear beginning or end -- the effective number of degrees of freedom drops continuously and rapidly throughout this period (see e.g. figure 2 of arXiv:1204.3622 [32]). Aseyhe (talk) 03:18, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment on scope @Johnjbarton: @Aseyhe: If this term actually does not exist, can we delete it across the other language Wikipedia's too? Being made in 2006, the article is I think in 17 different languages now. If this article simply isn't notable enough, however, that's different, and it should just be deleted here. Johnson524 16:25, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sorry I can't answer your question. I am asserting that the term is not notable and we should delete this article. The term "exists" in that the article exists and there are blogs with the term. That's all I know. Johnjbarton (talk) 16:45, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are tonnes of physics sources that talk about the QCD phase transition, and really we don't do it justice, especially as we don't mention the figure 10-5 seconds anywhere, which is a rather basic number to mention. However, there are also quite a number of books on cosmology that talk about the hadron era (not "hadron epoch") and the lepton era (not "lepton epoch") and the radiation era and the reality is that by blindly searching for the article title and counting Google hits, rather than actually knowing what to look for, you are looking for the wrong thing.

    For just three examples: Josip Kleczek's The Universe (ISBN 9789401014854) has a "Chronology of the universe" section in chapter 5 that goes "Hadron Era" → "Lepton Era" → "Radiation Era". A book from last century, Goldberg' and Scadron' Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology (ISBN 9780677217406) in chapter 7 has the same "Hadron Era" → "Lepton Era" → "Radiation Era" progression. Coming back to the 21st century the Springer Fundamental Astronomy book (ISBN 9783540001799, too many editors to list) has its history of the universe section in chapter 19 and once again proceeds "Hadron Era" → "Lepton Era" → "Radiation Era" → "Matter Era".

    Once you actually know a bit about the subject, and know the right things to look for, sources come out of your ears. Three books is barely scraping the surface of the available sources on these eras. Moreover, the way to fix the article, using all of these sources and the ordinary editing and page move tools, is obvious.

    Uncle G (talk) 23:28, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete, no significant coverage, and the term has practically no usage in scientific publications. Also I believe Aseyhe is right in their assessment. Artem.G (talk) 16:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep/Merge. Notability does not seem to be a concern. The term "Hadron era" registers in Ngrams. One can see that its use peaked in the 70s, so perhaps it is not a central concept in modern research, but one can nevertheless find it in some recent textbooks and reference works.[33][34][35][36][37] See the Internet Archive Search for "hadron era" for more. A stand-alone page is not necessary, it can be merged to Quark-hadron phase transition (does not exist yet) or some other related article like cosmological phase transition. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 07:18, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the ngram link. I suppose this is an argument to rename the page to "Hadron era", but sadly the "correct" usage for 'epoch' as an event and 'era' as a time span has evidently given way to these as being synonymous. Johnjbarton (talk) 15:04, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Move (I am the nominator) It clear this delete proposal will fail because two editors found references to "Hadron era" which undermine my main claim on notability. Based on this, the article should move to that title.
Death of Mihir Ahammed (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Wikipedia is not a newspaper. While this recent incident has received local media attention, the subject doesn't meet any criteria of WP:EVENT. It's a tragedy, but unfortunately a common occurrence. BusterD (talk) 22:27, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This recent incident has received national media attention [38][39][40],[41] and the police have confirmed that it was a Suicide
death due to Ragging, and there is a reference to the evidence, and the topic meets the criteria for WP:EVENT. This is not a common occurrence. An incident that is likely to be a model or catalyst for something else of lasting importance is likely to be noteworthy WP:LASTING. School ragging laws are likely to change because of this, as the police have taken up the case and the case is being heard in court[42]. Spworld2 (talk) 10:52, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's likely TOOSOON then. Oaktree b (talk) 15:24, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rafe Custance (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Not sure if this article meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. TheSwamphen (talk) 21:02, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I believe this would fall under WP:ENTERTAINER. No coverage has been given to the subject's role in the two shows listed on this article as far as I can see, and they are the only two listings on the subject's IMDb page. Therefore, he has not "had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions". nor has he "made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment." Kylemahar902 (talk) 22:23, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as BLP without any reliable sources. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:58, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . plicit 14:24, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dean Cochran (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I couldn't find sources that pass WP:GNG through a WP:BEFORE search and I don't think his roles are significant enough to pass WP:NACTOR. Suonii180 (talk) 20:30, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete‎. plicit 23:44, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP: GNG. I couldn't find sufficient sourcing to establish notability. The review that exists in the article is quite nice, but notability usually requires multiple reliable sources, and I couldn't find any outside of the review that is already cited in the article. HyperAccelerated (talk) 23:36, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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ECCW Hardcore Championship (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No notable regional title promoted by an independent promotion. No in deep coverage from third party sources. HHH Pedrigree (talk) 13:07, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Stay – Added a Cagematch in the external links so hopefully the page should stay. The page really just needs an additional citations for verification add on, in then it's fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B29C:B26C:CD0F:F438:B3A9:1A1B (talk) 14:33, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    1. Stay# – If the page doesn't have any references People and editors should add them bit by bit and piece by piece until it's a non-deleted page like 2600:1004:B29C:B26C:CD0F:F438:B3A9:1A1B said when it came to the ECCW Vancouver Island Championship non-deletion page argument which whom I agree with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.189.232.174 (talk) 17:35, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Cagematch isn't enough. Cagematch it's a database that includes every championship in the world. Cagematch doesn't prove notability. Third party sources focusing on the title are needed. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 09:40, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Possiblity - The page probably needs an additional citations for verification add on to it and then the page is perfectly fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B2AB:CC1:5F45:1A6C:9750:65A (talk) 16:08, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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ECCW Vancouver Island Championship (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No notable regional title promoted by an independent promotion. No in deep coverage from third party sources. HHH Pedrigree (talk) 13:06, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Stay – If the page doesn't have any references People and editors should add them bit by bit and piece by piece. The same with the ECCW Hardcore Championship until their non-deleted pages. The page really just needs an additional citations for verification add on, in then it's fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B29C:B26C:CD0F:F438:B3A9:1A1B (talk) 14:35, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    1. Stay# – I agree with 2600:1004:B29C:B26C:CD0F:F438:B3A9:1A1B with a lot of things and when it comes to this page. Plus I agree with him when it comes to the ECCW Hardcore Championship page as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.189.232.174 (talk) 15:28, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Cagematch isn't enough. Cagematch it's a database that includes every championship in the world. Cagematch doesn't prove notability. Third party sources focusing on the title are needed. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 09:40, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Possiblity - The page probably needs an additional citations for verification add on to it and then the page is perfectly fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B2AB:CC1:5F45:1A6C:9750:65A (talk) 16:09, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Joppa, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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OK, so here we have a weird one. The actual spot consists of a couple of 20th century houses and a garage across the road from one of them. Whether you would call this a town is a matter of opinion. Searching, however, lights up like a Christmas tree, because this spot was the subject of an urban legend which c;ained that there were Spooky Things happening there. The rumors centered around a church which isn't in fact here; it's somewhere in the Clayton-Belleville area. I haven't found its exact location but you can read the story in this local news report, and this one reorting that the building had been burned down for the second time. Of course Google ranks the rumors higher than the debunking but what you gonna do. Anyway, this is a spot on a map, not a settlement. Mangoe (talk) 13:24, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The Baker Hoosier place names book has this as a "village" on page 181. Despite the claimed dates, there's no such Joppa in the 1895 Lippincott's, however, nor in several other gazetteers. Nor does the 1885 History of Hendricks County, Indiana have anything. The Arcadia Publishing book for Plainfield tantalizingly mentions a Joppa Road, but has nothing specific. An 1899 USPS directory lists a Joppa post office in Hendricks; and everything else that I've found only confirms that post office and provides essentially zero information about it, because it's largely contemporary sources giving a postal address. I'm unable to confirm what Baker claims, including the claim to a second Joppa in Hancock County, Indiana. Uncle G (talk) 14:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • I've not found calling places "villages" to be particularly reliable. Mangoe (talk) 22:27, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • In late 20th and 21st century sources, yes. Baker is from 1995. But 19th century sources pre-date the mid-20th-century shift in the U.S.A. to calling most things cities. Lippincott's is reasonably self-consistent and systematic in its use of "hamlet", "village", and "town" and in its "post-" variants of those. The reason to suspect Baker is not that it is from 1995, though. It is that in most other cases so far there has been supporting evidence from elsewhere to be found. In this case, I can only find supporting evidence for the post office; not for the "village" that Baker claims, nor for the other Joppa that Baker has in the same entry. Uncle G (talk) 10:40, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep per WP:GEOLAND. This article is a stub at best, and one of the sources is literally the census information. JTZegers (talk) 01:38, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The only thing the census website is being used for is as a source of the FIPS ID, which is obsolete anyway. There's no guarantee implied that this is a real place, and they do not provide populations for these places unless they are represented by CDPs. Mangoe (talk)
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No one source that points to notability. Does not match WP:GNG and WP:ORG Pollia (talk) 18:10, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Article does not cite any sources, and I am unable to find any independent third-party sources about this person. ―Howard🌽33 17:58, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The previous AfD was in 2006, and none of the arguments addressed coverage by third party independent sources, instead focusing on his CV. ―Howard🌽33 18:01, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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No one source that points to notability. Does not match WP:GNG and WP:ORG Pollia (talk) 17:47, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:PROMO, Recently launched OTT, Promotional motive to create this Wikipedia page. It is an advertisement more than a Wikipedia article. Or it is good to be redirected on Prasar Bharati. Moreover unable to satisfy WP:SIGCOV in multiple reliable secondary sources. Bakhtar40 (talk) 10:07, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please provide at-least THREE significant references from reliable resources which are independent of the subject?
  • Keep Definitely needs sources, but removing an article about a streaming service from India's state broadcaster when we have many more unsourced articles about generic commercial screaming head news channels and filler movie channels in the country feels WP:POINTy and this is more an expansion candidate for sure. There's certainly less PROMO here than your average Network 18/Zee article, which is mainly about the service's debut rather than any future promises. Nate (chatter) 14:17, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Any article on Wikipedia requires significant coverage from numerous credible published works to substantiate its notability. India's state broadcaster does not imply significance. There is no comparison with other WIKI articles. Bakhtar40 (talk) 11:40, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep, as the creator of the article, this is an important article because it's about India's National streamer Doordarshan. I tried my maximum to make it. If it have issues, I am requesting to help it to make more suitable for Wikipedia Guidelines. Thank you United Blasters (talk) 08:46, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You have already voted once, so please strike this vote. An editor asked you to share the three best sources above, which you have conveniently ignored, yet you are here expressing an opinion that is not backed by any policy or guideline. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 09:21, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I already added directly on mentioned article. United Blasters (talk) 11:52, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete the keep !votes are unconvincing. While I don't find it particularly promotional, that's effectively because there's so little to actually say of any substance that is supported by RS. Clear failure of NCORP. Blogs and zines are not sources, nor are advertorials, even when they're in national dailies. The remaining "coverage" is either WP:INHERITED from the founder or WP:PASSINGMENTIONs.Serial (speculates here) 14:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete While not being promotional as such, I sense at least an advertising intent. Clearly fails WP:NCORP for the moment. Lectonar (talk) 08:06, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Hi Vanderwaalforces, Thank You for relisting this closed afd and considering my request on Teahouse. Although, I am neutral and i don't have any intention to delete this article but as per Wikipedia policies this is not ready for main space. Bakhtar40 (talk) 16:26, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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WP:BLP of an activist and writer, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria. As always, neither activists nor writers are automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on third-party analytical coverage about them and their work -- but the attempted notability claim here is that he exists and wrote a book, and the sole footnote is a magazine article where he was the bylined author rather than the subject. But as usual, you don't make a writer notable by sourcing his work to itself as verification that it exists, you make a writer notable by sourcing his work to third-party coverage about it (book reviews, notable literary award nominations and/or wins, etc.) as evidence that its significance has been externally validated by somebody other than its own publisher.
Meanwhile, on a ProQuest search, I'm not finding much in the way of coverage about him: there are a couple of reviews of his book (mostly a single wire service article being reprinted in multiple newspapers), but not really enough reviews of the book to get him over GNG just on those alone, and otherwise I'm really only finding glancing namechecks of his existence as a provider of soundbite in coverage of other things rather than coverage which actually has him as its subject.
He's certainly locally known in his own city, but nothing here is adding up to enough nationalized or internationalized prominence to exempt him from having to have a lot more and better referencing than just one piece of his own writing. Bearcat (talk) 16:59, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep - Meslin's advocacy against corporate billboards in public places is well known around Toronto, but a documentary about him has attracted international attention, e.g. Al Jazeera, and a detailed article from the CBC about the documentary, among other coverage. Besides that work, I found this 1,400-word detailed write-up in Macleans about his work on democratic reform, and another from Macleans ([67]) which is a borderline passing mention, but there are plenty more articles in smaller publications about this work, e.g. [68], [69], [70], [71] (some of these are third-party reviews of one of his books, maybe the same wire service review Bearcat mentioned, but being picked up by multiple outlets suggests notability). There are also plenty of links around to his TED talks and speaking engagements, which suggest notability but aren't really useful as references. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:40, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: Dave Meslin is known in Toronto for his activism against corporate billboards, with international attention from a documentary covered by Al Jazeera and CBC. His work on democratic reform has some media coverage, including Macleans articles and TED talks. However, he lacks sufficient third-party analysis to meet Wikipedia’s notability standards, with limited independent coverage beyond local recognition and a few book reviews. YoYoSuryaPatratalk 14:479, 08 February 2025 (UTC)
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It's like too promotional. And not have enough sources. References given there, which is affiliated with Athmeeya Yathra and not independent. WP:GNG and WP:NPOV. I strongly believe that, the creator of this article is associated with Athmeeya Yathra. And created it for its Promotional purposes through Wikipedia, which is against Wikipedia Policy.[72] United Blasters (talk) 16:57, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete‎. plicit 14:25, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The available sources are interviews, announcement containing trivial mentions, primary sources closely related to the subject and the two sources from Forbes are not reliable. Mekomo (talk) 16:26, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep: He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was recognized in the Forbes 40 Under 40 amongst other recognition. While they cannot ensure notability independently, if they're combined, the subject passes WP:BASIC as it has received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable and independent. Obi Montana (talk) 18:11, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete: does not appear to have sufficient secondary sourcing to pass WP:SIGCOV. m a MANÍ1990(talk | contribs) 00:41, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Nothing in the article or elsewhere amounts to significant independent coverage. Becoming a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts is very easy - there are 1000s of them, you get one to nominate you and then pay an annual fee. As for this "the Forty under 40 Awards" it is nothing to do with Forbes, simply another vanity award and Idaminabo's name is not even on the long list of "winners". Delete and salt. Edwardx (talk) 22:50, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as not even having a claim to notability. As noted above by others, all of the awards he's gotten are run of the mill, such as one fellowship held by 30,000 other people. If they described why he received the awards (for example, organizing volunteers to recycle goods for charity, feeding stray animals, educating children, etc.) then at least we could understand why he's getting awards beyond logrolling or a participation trophy. Finally, as a candidate, that's not enough for WP:NPOL. Bearian (talk) 14:54, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Comparison of North American ski resorts (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Almost all of the data is cribbed from self-published sources, i.e. the websites of the various ski areas. They are notorious for inflating their statistics. I pointed this out almost four years ago and placed a "self-published" tag on the page, but nothing has improved in the intervening time. Finding good, solid, independent, reliable sources for these numbers is difficult if not impossible. Moreover, the ticket price has not been updated in five years and is off by almost a factor of two in some cases - it's an impossible maintenance task to keep that column up to date. The rest of it mostly reiterates marketing fluff.

See my comment on the talk page from Mar 2020: Talk:Comparison_of_North_American_ski_resorts#Self-published_tag Mr. Swordfish (talk) 22:51, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • It's abundantly clear that there is no consensus at this time to delete it
  • Several editors have suggested possible avenues for addressing the concerns. I'm skeptical, but willing to work with others to bring the article into compliance with wiki policies.
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Delete Wikipedia is not a directory. There's already a tree of categories for ski resorts, don't need more than that. And as OP said the data reliability is a big question mark. Wizmut (talk) 13:02, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Statististics can easily be updated with new information in terms of the ticket price. As for categories such as "skiable acreage" and "vertical drop", I agree that the article should have original research, but there really isn't a practical way, although not impossible, to find that information other than from the resort themselves (which is dubious but the most accurate information we have). However, the amount of trails, ski lifts, and annual snowfall is easily verifiable information that is publicly accessible. I also do not believe this article acts as a WP:DIRECTORY, and provides encyclopedic value, thus need not be deleted. I could also see this article getting merged with List of ski areas and resorts in the United States. Googoogootoo (talk) 12:46, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I have to disagree that "...the article should have original research" That goes against WP:OR.
    That said, the most accurate numbers for vertical drop can be found by consulting the US Geological Survey data or similar official sets of data. There's a really nice web UI to that data at openskimap.org and anybody can pull up a ski area, find the top and bottom, and get the vertical drop. If you do that, you'll see that the numbers in this article are often way off. You'll also be doing original research which we are not supposed to base article content on.
    So, the basic problem is that much of the data in the article is demonstrably false, and there's no good, solid, independent, reliable sourcing for the actual numbers that would allow us to bring the article in compliance with Wikipedia policies. It would be great if we could find solid data, but we can't, and we shouldn't be repeating information that is clearly false. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 01:11, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: everyone knows that we have never published original content. Bearian (talk) 21:24, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Verifiability: if an article is unverified, but verification seems possible, it may be worth keeping. However, articles with mainly unverifiable content should be deleted.
So, does it seem possible to verify all or even most of this data? If so, it may be worth keeping. But I haven't heard of a path towards finding reliable sourcing for most of the data, so my take is that it does not seem possible i.e. the article contains "mainly unverifiable content". Mr. Swordfish (talk) 22:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep A valid navigational list to list all the articles for a similar thing together. They should be split by nation though. Valid information list. Lists are more useful than categories because more information is listed, helping people find what they are looking for far better than a category can. I don't believe the prices should be listed, since that's not usually something that is done. Even in the articles linked to it doesn't list the price. I don't think any business an legally lie about information, so no reason to doubt how much snowfall or measurements they have. If a government website can be found listing the information, or a reliable source that list this information, that would be better to use as references. Dream Focus 17:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep There's issues with this article (notably out of date information), but it's still helpful for easily comparing hills and getting a high-level description of each. Being able to sort by any given category is very useful to see a hill's given ranking, something other site don't accurately have. "Marketing fluff" is a bit harsh, what mountains are inflating their statistics? ReidMoffat (talk) 20:22, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ...what mountains are inflating their statistics?
    Nearly every ski area in the midwest overstates their vertical. Accurate stats are the exception rather than the norm. If we wind up keeping this list, I'll be happy to point them out. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 22:49, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge with List of ski areas and resorts in the United States. I agree with User:DesiMoore. Merging this article will help editors fix any and all outdated information, improving the site as a whole. JTZegers (talk) 01:41, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Latifa al-Droubi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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The only thing the reliable sources can confirm is that she exists. Her existence is not grounds for the article's existence. Notability is not inherited. Everything in the article is speculation. Even the "first lady of Syria" thing is a speculation. Let the woman be a private citizen if she wants to be or attain publicity if she wants to attain it. Surtsicna (talk) 13:54, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

According to which guideline or policy? We have a guideline that specifically says that nobody is considered notable solely on the basis of being related to someone. I cited it. Surtsicna (talk) 20:37, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly. That is absolute falsehood. scope_creepTalk 07:29, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Being someone's wife is explicitly not enough for someone to be notable per WP:NOTINHERITED, and we are not supposed to predict whether she will ever become notable. The guy could die tomorrow. Surtsicna (talk) 20:39, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Ahmed al-Sharaa#Personal life. All we have are some clickbait-y "Who is Latifa al-Droubi?" articles and a BBC piece that cites "unofficial sources" for some very basic biographical information. She clearly leads a private life and I don't think there is nearly enough well-sourced information available about her for an adequate BLP. Even if she is notable (and I agree with Surtsicna that she almost certainly isn't, per WP:NOTINHERITED), this should be a redirect until there's enough information in reliable sources to confirm more than the fact that she exists. MCE89 (talk) 05:49, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Clearly a notable figure in her own right. She has been mentioned in dozens of WP:RSs across multiple languages since her first public appearance. No notability is being WP:INHERITED here. Eelipe (talk) 05:52, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is "significant coverage in reliable sources" that is required, @Eelipe, not merely being "mentioned". If you need a comparison, note that Malia Obama and Barron Trump are mentioned in thousands of reliable sources across virtually all languages, yet we seem to firmly agree that this is not enough because it is not significant coverage. Surtsicna (talk) 06:53, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please read WP:SIGCOV before making a nonexistent bar of "thousands" of sources required for notability. Per SIGCOV, "Significant coverage addresses the topic directly and in detail... Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material." There are more than a dozen sources on the subject that fit this description. Eelipe (talk) 15:55, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please read more carefully. I did not say that thousands of sources are needed. I said that being mentioned in thousands of sources is still not WP:SIGCOV. Not one of the sources mentioning the subject addresses the subject in detail, as we can see from virtually nothing being known about her. The entire article is speculation after speculation. Surtsicna (talk) 08:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect Mentions don't add up to reliable coverage for a WP:BLP Lots and lots of passing mentions. Fails WP:BIO and WP:SIGCOV. scope_creepTalk 07:28, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep She has been in position for only 2 weeks, and there is already significant coverage from multiple media sources in several countries (and more that are not included in this article, including Italy and Kashmir). RebeccaGreen (talk) 15:38, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    In what position has she been? There is no RS that "first lady of Syria" is a thing in post-Assad Syria. Surtsicna (talk) 08:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: WP:NPOL is satisfied by the de-facto First Lady of Syria position. TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 16:18, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    How does she figure in WP:NPOL? She is not a politician or a judge. Where is the RS for first lady of Syria being a position in Syria? Surtsicna (talk) 08:51, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It is not an official position in the US either, but it clearly has political significance and can be considered a major political position. The release of the photograph with the Turkish First Lady supports this. I think footnote 13 in NPOL is relevant here: "People who satisfy this criterion will almost always satisfy the primary criterion. Biographers and historians will usually have already written about the past and present holders of major political offices. However, this criterion ensures that our coverage of major political offices, incorporating all of the present and past holders of that office, will be complete regardless." TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 01:14, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep Numerous Wikipedia languages have been translated, and the spouse of the current president is notably mentioned in many reliable sources, which is considered sufficient to meet WP:GNG. HurricaneEdgar 01:50, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep – I was originally going to argue for delete, on the grounds that in the ultraconservative Islamic culture that Ahmed al-Sharaa comes from (don't forget he used to be an al Qaeda leader), wives have a very low public profile – consider how little is known about the wife of MbS, she is never seen. However, the fact that she's already officially accompanying him on state visits, and being photographed doing so – is a sign that al-Sharaa wants her to have somewhat of a public profile, closer to the Western idea of a "First Lady", contrary to what his ultraconservative Islamic background suggests. So, unless he changes his mind about this, I expect there will be more coverage of her in the future, and so even if we don't have a lot of sourcing right now, almost certainly there is more to come–if we delete this, we'll just end up creating it again in a few more months, so let's save the effort by not deleting it. She's probably never going to have the kind of high profile that Asma al-Assad had, but if Sara bint Mashour Al Saud has an article despite never being seen in public and almost nothing being known about her, then surely Latifa al-Droubi who is being photographed accompanying her husband on international trips should too. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 02:39, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, as she is clearly taking up a public position by accompanying her husband on state visits and allowing herself to be photographed. PamD 11:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - notable public figure as first lady. Moondragon21 (talk) 14:27, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep She is definitely not a private citizen since she has been accompanying her husband on public outings and state visits. As the spouse of a head of state who's fulfilling some ceremonial functions, she is clearly notable. Keivan.fTalk 14:34, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Other than Vatican City, the spouse of an executive head of state is inherently notable...although even in the case of the Vatican there's precedent Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 00:23, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Latifa al-Droubi meets the GNG. Kudos to Goldsztajn for highlighting an interesting angle in an otherwise unnecessary debate. gidonb (talk) 05:07, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - She is meeting with other first ladies, such as Emine Erdoğan of Turkey, and there is enough media coverage for her to have its own page. Slh7477 (talk) 07:06, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Maumee, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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A "no there there" spot of which I can only find a passing reference to a store here in an old history of the county, and this book tends to have paragraphs on real towns. Other than that searching is drowned out by hits on the river. Mangoe (talk) 13:29, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete As I've said on other discussions for these nonexistent places, if we have to do this much digging through gray literature to find whether or not a place was a "village" or "station" or "post office", and after all that still can't determine where it even was (i.e. WP:V), we don't have enough information for an article. The article creator certainly didn't do this much work, so why should we? WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 13:55, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment. This made me laugh. I spent way too much time trying to find Moody, although I did solve the mystery in the end. Can you imagine trying to be a geographer in Indiana? I fully support getting rid of all of these random post office/railroad stop articles and condensing them into one page so we don't have to think about this anymore. Kylemahar902 (talk) 23:10, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - as per above discussion. While in theory, a ghost town can be included, this one doesn't pass. Bearian (talk) 22:12, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete‎. Liz Read! Talk! 07:47, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:FILMMAKER. Promotional, resume-style article. Sources include an interview with a former Forbes contributor, paid articles masquerading as legitimate, and trivial, non-substantial coverage. Junbeesh (talk) 08:13, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Editor recreated previously deleted article without any changes Equine-man (talk) 11:58, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Sources do not establish notability. Procyon117 (talk) 14:45, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Vinnie Hornsby (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Not notable outside of his band Sevendust. This is a clear case of WP:BANDMEMBER. Edit: Just saw Hornsby is also in the supergroup Projected, so not entirely sure anymore---FMSky (talk) 13:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment. It should be noted that Vinnie's bandmate, John Connolly, also might possibly not have notability outside of Sevendust. It seems inconsistent to remove Vinnie's page but keep John's; otherwise, having pages for all five core members seems to be the most logical and uniform decision - especially since Sevendust is decently well-known in the metal/rock genres, at least, on a consistent 25+ year scale. I suppose I'd support redirecting Vinnie's page only if John's got redirected as well (for context, the other 3 members Lajon & Clint & Morgan, have all made numerous appearances outside of Sevendust unlike John & Vinnie). Xanarki (talk) 01:45, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The solution there is to subject Connolly's article to this same process and see where the community discussion goes. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:37, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
J. J. Roy Burman (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I am unable to find sufficient in-depth coverage from reliable independent sources to meet WP:GNG. AndySailz (talk) 12:23, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Sohail Khan (athlete) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:SPORTBASIC. The person does not have significant coverage in Reliable sources. AndySailz (talk) 12:39, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All three references including ETV Bharat are not reliable and fails WP:RS. AndySailz (talk) 05:53, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete I looked at the articles in the sources mentioned by user Jannatulbaqi. Besides their questionable reliability is the fact that none of them constitute significant coverage as WP defines it. One article named three people from the city that were going to the Kudo World Cup, one was clearly a PR release naming four Kudo athletes that had been appointed as income tax officers, one mentioned Khan had attended a public school Kudo tournament as a guest, and one was entirely an interview. Several others I couldn't access. Most of his championships appear to be in youth divisions which don't show WP notability. I couldn't find info on his 2017 world championship (would again not have been as an adult). The Kudo International Federation (KIF) did not hold any world championships in 2017, though they did have a youth championship in 2018. No Indian athletes are listed [77] and no division appears to have had more than 2 entries. The 2023 world championships the article mentions do list the top 4 in each division, but there's no mention of any Indian athlete.[78] According to fightmatrix he has competed in MMA, where he has lost more fights than he's won and is currently ranked #341. I don't see anything that shows he meets WP:ANYBIO, WP:NSPORT, WP:GNG, WP:NMMA, or any other WP notability criteria. If additional relevant information is found, please let me know. Papaursa (talk) 01:08, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Adamantine123, would you please tell us exactly which sources meet WP:GNG? I have already commented on a number of the sources claimed to show WP notability, so I am interested in which ones you consider reliable, independent, and significant.Papaursa (talk) 00:58, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Subject is ranked over top 300 in the world in MMA as mentioned by Papaursa, clearly fails WP:MMA. The sport of Kudo doesn't have any established notability guidelines therefore we have to establish WP:SIGCOV or WP:GNG, which it isn't. The article is written in an incredibly non-encyclopedic way, imo blatant vanity page with potential WP:COI. Lekkha Moun (talk) 14:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Danny Acosta (baseball) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Does not meet WP:NCOLLATH. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:21, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to keep per the sources added into the article by Epluribusunumyall, which establish notability. Frank Anchor 22:56, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Frank. I believe that notability should be more determined by the significance of a person’s accomplishments, rather than just counting the sources.50.39.138.50 (talk) 20:11, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't how notability is established, in fact, we tend to lean against notability solely based on awards and achievements because it can be seen as self promotion and be hard to stay neutral.
If enough sources generally cover the individual, which they seem to do here, there's no reason to not keep them. We have plenty of notable baseball players who had entirely uneventful careers but still made news coverage enough in reliable sources that they get articles.
It's okay to believe that notability should be established that way, but that's not how it's currently established, which is what we're discussing here. Chew(VT • E) 23:02, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see your point, but I suppose that in AfD discussions, we look beyond just counting sources and also consider whether someone meets Wikipedia’s general and specific notability standards. We need a broader view, and in Acosta’s case, that means checking if he meets WP:NCOLLATH in addition to having enough sources. I haven’t seen anyone bring that up yet in detail —it seems like most of the participants are focusing on the source count.50.39.138.50 (talk) 22:01, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Added another source from iccag.org Dog Bungler (talk) 02:41, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comparison of American football and rugby league (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG. No particular interaction between these two sports, apart from one cross code game pitting two minor teams against each other, which is already mentioned (with a cited source) in Clash of Codes anyway. BilletsMauves€500 12:08, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep the article Rugby League and Rugby Union are different sports Servite et contribuere (talk) 10:37, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge the article with comparison of American Football and Rugby Union instead Servite et contribuere (talk) 18:00, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Against this. League and Union are two different sports, the article would require renaming and I think would cause too much confusion for readers not familiar with the subject. Mn1548 (talk) 11:30, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@BilletsMauves Read Comparison of rugby league and rugby union and Comparison of American football and rugby. There are Two codes of Rugby, not just one Servite et contribuere (talk) 20:15, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I know. What does this have to do with the deletion rationale ? BilletsMauves€500 11:09, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
BilletsMauves Because it would be wrong to compare American Football with one code, and not compare it with the other. It shouldn't be deleted. The article should probably be merged with the other one instead Servite et contribuere (talk) 16:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS isn't a valid keep rationale. Also, if you think the article should be merged, why are you advocating for a keep above? BilletsMauves€500 19:42, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I do not see any indication that they pass Wikipedia:NFILMMAKER. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:05, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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No evidence for notability, no references, just a carrier for the spam link to the streaming platforms, so promo too. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:00, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. This doesn't seem to be independently notable outside of the rally. FWIW, I do kind of get the impression that the editor is also editing from a place of personal excitement for rallying in general. There's a definite COI here and I do think he wants people to know about and think kindly of the rally he created, but I don't think he's necessarily here to promote himself exactly. I don't see where he's tried to create a bio article and he didn't include his name on the film article. He needs to avoid COI editing of course, but I'm hopeful that his energies might be able to re-oriented towards non-COI topics. I've asked at WP:RALLY for someone to look over the parent article on the rally and ideally provide some guidance to the editor. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 23:12, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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A disambig disambiguating only one full page, which per WP:ONEOTHER has a hatnote to the only other use on Wikipedia. Can't be redirected to its primary topic 10 Lives as preposterously suggested by its prod remover, since that would make this a speedy. —Cryptic 11:33, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OneOther? --Jax 0677 (talk) 22:23, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

* Redirect - Redirect to 10 Lives per WP:CHEAP. --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:16, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nice attempt at sarcasm but you should admit your vendetta against ever deleting anything no matter how useful it is or isn't. There is still only one blue-linked article of this precise title even after the recent expansion that apparently inspired the votes below. Some more non-notable items of that title were dug up from obscure artists, but the disambig page still offers no additional value to anyone searching for actual articles in Wikipedia that they can read and learn from. I will also reiterate that nobody is ever going to type "10 Lives (disambiguation)" as a search term. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 22:45, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Come again? --Jax 0677 (talk) 20:41, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep‎. Nomination was withdrawn without delete !vote. Best, (non-admin closure) Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 07:32, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Highly promo page for an academic full of issues. While he might pass notability WP:NPROF#C1, even after some cleaning of unverified statements the page contains far too much unsourced material. As general quality control I am recommending draftifying; somehow it has escaped the standard 3 month window for this. We need to ensure that articles in main space are not just notable, they are encyclopedic.

Issues:

  1. No sources for #Early life and education
  2. No sources for #Career as a scientist
  3. Highly promo tone about the so-called hydroelectric cell which "generates green electricity by splitting water", for which the only sources quoted are news articles.
  4. Claim of establishment of advanced measurement techniques for magnetic materials quotes a paper on biological extraction of metals
  5. From what I can see no secondary sources, only a couple of his papers and news articles in the cleaned up sources. Ldm1954 (talk) 02:22, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep. Membership in NASI should be enough for WP:PROF#C3 and his citation record on Google Scholar also makes a good case for #C1. I have heavily trimmed some unsourced, dubious, and indiscriminate material from the article. It needed it, but WP:DINC. —David Eppstein (talk) 08:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: The original proposal was draftification (not deletion, so WP:DINC was never relevant, and notability was never the issue). The edits by David Eppstein (talk) is the stubify that Bobby Cohn (talk) suggested. I am OK with leaving it like this. It still has two books sourced to a library shelf, plus an award of "President" of a nebulous scientific organization as quality control issues. For certain this is far better than the original NPP version. Ldm1954 (talk) 10:49, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Cambria Productions should be deleted as it lacks significant coverage from independent, reliable sources to establish notability. Additionally, the content in the article is minimal and doesn't provide substantial information about the company's impact or contributions to the industry Loewstisch (talk) 09:43, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The article lacks sufficient coverage from reliable, independent sources and also a lot of links to your own website Loewstisch (talk) 09:41, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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lacks significant coverage from reliable, independent sources, making it fail to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Loewstisch (talk) 09:37, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Not notable, linkedin source and other references are not reliable sources; I managed to find only primary or not reliable sources online. Taking off shortly (talk) 09:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

These sources are sufficient to satisfy NCORP's requirements for significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Jfire (talk) 05:45, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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No single sources meets NCORP; routine not reliable and deep media sources; not notable company by its own Taking off shortly (talk) 09:21, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Promotinal routine coverage sources only about seed fund raising and similar event-based news. Not meeting NCORP Taking off shortly (talk) 09:20, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Only source is an email list, user generated content. AFAIK there exist no other sources or published work on this topic, as the author of the topic at hand (Harvey Friedman) primarily releases results through this email list. C7XWiki (talk) 09:12, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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notability KabirDH (talk) 12:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, this fails to meet Wikipedia’s notability criteria. Without significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources, the article does not meet the standard for inclusion. Chegouahora (talk) 13:02, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Fraternities and sororities, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and India. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 13:57, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Draftify: The article violates Wikipedia’s Neutral Point of View (NPOV) and Verifiability policies. There are multiple Extreme POVs trying to link the group with insurgents by using “seemingly” valid reliable sources, but these have nothing to do with how the term is used by the organisation itself. Stating this the Etymology section is excessive and unsupported by reliable sources discussing the term in the context of the organization, violating WP:UNDUE. Also Newspaper sources merely repeating the organization’s claims do not meet WP:RS standards as independent, third-party references. I don’t feel the lyngdoh paper is reliable as it’s written by a high schooler and newspaper articles mostly just repeat what the organisation has said. So this article needs to be further cut down and taking all the sources into account I don’t feel it will should be more than 1-2 paragraphs long ZoUnified (talk) 18:02, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    There is a separate discussion happening regarding the undue weight on the Talk page, and a possible RfC if additional edit warring occurs. The POV issues can be resolved without deletion/draftifying EmeraldRange (talk/contribs) 01:12, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: All the sources listed are Third Party and Reliable. There is also considerable coverage on the organisation that would support keeping the Wikipedia article on it. Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 14:15, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: there's at least one article on the page that meets WP:GNG as an independent secondary source and WP:SIGCOV from other sources. The Lyngdoh source, the currently used Haokip source and the Mokokchung times source would each, by themselves, fulfill GNG. By policy, this article's content may need better verifiability but clearly meets standards for inclusion as an article.
As an outsider to WP:INDIA, I've additionally observed bludgeoning with citation tags that have been mostly resolved as well as a lot of wishywashy claims of a lack of notability over the last day. If these stem from an objection to the WP:POV views on the term Wesea, wikipedia is not censored and it's merely an uncomfortable fact that Wesea is in the organisation's name. All of this is, of course, irrelevant to this AfD but is perhaps relevant context to consider given that the nominee did not explain at all what their concerns are. EmeraldRange (talk/contribs) 14:26, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fringe topic SN bastion (talk) 17:35, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Weak keep. I am very surprised that there is this much coverage for a student group founded less than a year ago, but the sources narrowly get it over the line IMO. The best by far is the Haokip article, which seems to be a proper peer-reviewed journal article focused entirely on this group. The other sources are much less convincing. The Lyngdoh source is by a high school student and I'm sceptical that the site is a WP:RS. The other sources, including the Mokokchung Times, EastMojo, Shillong Times, and Hub Network pieces, don't have bylined reporters and seem to essentially repeat the group's announcements, so I think they should be discounted somewhat. But the Khasi language source is good, and the sources I can find make me strongly suspect there is much more out there in little-spoken northeast Indian languages that I'm just not able to find. I would also note that this group split off from Northeast Students' Organization, which seems to be unambiguously notable. So at worst I think this is potentially a case of WP:TOOSOON. MCE89 (talk) 02:44, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Switching to delete. My initial view was that the Haokip journal article seemed to be by far the best source, and that alongside some weaker sources there was just about enough to meet WP:GNG. But after looking at it again given Worldbruce and Kautilya3's comments below, including the fact that it seems to cite at least some non-existent references, I don't think it's reliable or that any weight can be placed on it. Without that journal article, there's nowhere near enough to meet WP:GNG. MCE89 (talk) 09:14, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: The article clearly meets the inclusion criteria, contrary to the nominator's claim. The sources cited such as Lyngdoh,Haokip, Mokokchung Times and the Morung Express article strongly support the article's compliance with WP:GNG.--MimsMENTOR talk 08:29, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@Kautilya3, RangersRus, Raymond3023, and Walsh90210: Notifying, as concerned editors per WP:APPNOTE, all who participated in the previous deletion discussion. --Worldbruce (talk) 23:49, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Sources 2-5 say nothing about the WSF, they are only background about the term Wesean. EastMojo is paywalled, so I can't evaluate it fully, but the site follows a "citizen journalists" model, which is not a hallmark of reliable sources. From what can be seen, "In a statement, the WSF ...", it appears to be like Hub News, Ka Shelm, Mokokchung Times, Nagaland Post, The Morung Express, The Shillong Times, and Thingkho Le Maicha. All of them are essentially primary source press releases, repeating what WSF said in a letter - paraphrased for length perhaps, but without any critical analysis, evaluation, synthesis, or reference to sources other than the WSF. These do nothing to establish notability.
Lyngdoh is a high school student who doesn't appear to have published anything else, writing in the "Assertion" (i.e. opinion) section of Round Table India, which encourages visitors to "Please send your article submissions to contact.roundtableindia@gmail.com". This is not a reliable source for anything other than Lyngdoh's opinion.
Haokip is a political science student at Mizoram University. He doesn't appear to have published anything else. His paper has 7 notes and 39 references. Only two have publication dates after the March/April 2024 formation of the WSF, and neither of them can be found by Google or by direct searches of the Human Rights Watch and North East Now websites (the supposed publishers). This does not inspire confidence in reliability. If it is reliable, it is not enough on its own to establish notability. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete. As per WP:GNG, we need at least two reliable sources with substantial coverage about the topic. The two sources that have such coverage (Lyngdoh and Haokip) are not reliable. They are student research and Haokip's article is really, really poor in its citations (citing non-existing sources, sources not supporting claims etc.) -- Kautilya3 (talk) 08:07, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete‎. Looking at this article and their acting credits, I don't see how editors can argue that they pass WP:NACTOR. I agree with those editors arguing for Deletion. Liz Read! Talk! 07:54, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The subject does not pass WP:GNG and WP:NACTOR, while the creator made a list of the Filmography, but have not cited the WP:RS to support it. I searched about the subject on google but got nothing that can establish notability. Taabii (talk) 14:14, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Clearly not meeting WP NCORP; deleted last year at AfD and recreated Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aave Protocol; all the sources are or paid, or trivial with no reliable deep coverage. Taking off shortly (talk) 08:45, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Aave is #32 on Coinmarketcap. The top 50 cryptocurrencies on Coinmarketcap.com are certainly notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. This isn't some relatively unknown altcoin that is barely used. In the crypto world, you see Aave's presence a lot. Ask the folks at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptocurrency and they can tell you without a doubt that Aave is notable enough. Might as well delete Dai (cryptocurrency), Uniswap, or other articles with similar levels of notability?
  2. Aave is already on the French Wikipedia (fr:Aave) and the Persian Wikipedia (fa:پروتکل Aave), which were created and edited by different editors familiar with how notable different crypto topics and coins really are. They were also created before the current English Wikipedia article for Aave was created. These are also two of the largest Wikipedias.
  3. The first AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aave Protocol, had only one delete vote, so it was closed as a soft delete. Re-creating the article with sufficient citations is thus a valid option, since the original version apparently didn't have that many sources. Per WP:CONCISE, this is better named as Aave, and most sources refer to it as such without the Protocol part, which was why the article was created as Aave rather than Aave Protocol. The French Wikipedia also has fr:Aave, and it was created before the current English Wikipedia article was.
  4. The sources are not "trivial" as the nominator claims. Multiple peer-reviewed scientific papers are cited, in fact 6+ papers (something that's practically impossible for barely known altcoins), and additional sources cited include TechCrunch, Bloomberg News, and Goldman Sachs Research, not random non-notable crypto blogs. The article does not have any blatantly obviously promotional content either (no awards, no corporate puffery, no corporate leadership fluff, no tabloid sensationalism), since most of it actually looks quite, if not a bit too, technical.
  5. Finally, the AfD nominator is recklessly deleting articles without properly evaluating everything. He's been making dozens of disruptive AfDs and has been disregarding WP:BEFORE and other Wikipedia language versions, and neither has he been properly evaluating sources and notability. Thie nominator's contribution history has nothing but AfD nominations, and the account was created just last year with around 100 edits. To add to the confusion, the nominator's comments are frequently mangled, ungrammatical, and poorly worded. This kind of activity is highly disruptive and inappropriate, so I would suggest that this nomination be quickly closed.

Even if we disregard #5, #1-#4 provide very strong reasons for why this article should be quickly kept.

Newatlascamels (talk) 10:31, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete The “speedy keep” vote is effectively winning the jackpot by raising arguments that should not have been raised. It's classic canvassing too. Let's analyze the sources: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and other media outlets do not appear to provide reliable coverage, only announcements of launching A, launching B, etc - classic WP Trades. --91.222.32.118 (talk) 13:15, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Fails GNG and lack of significant coverages. AgerJoy talk 08:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . plicit 14:27, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable, only trivial mentions of the person in references DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 13:46, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Weak delete – Looks a case of WP:REFBOMB. As much as the subject has been mentioned in articles from reliable sources, there does not seem to be anything really significant that validates encyclopedic content about it. If complementary/academic sources appears, I change my vote. Svartner (talk) 02:41, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Non-notable publication, Unable to find significant or in-depth coverage. AndySailz (talk) 12:30, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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No relialbe media coverage, only acquisitions coverage (not in-depth). Thus it fails per NCORP Cinder painter (talk) 09:34, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • I suggest that AfD volunteers should consider checking the article's history and following the link I put in when I first created it.—S Marshall T/C 09:48, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • [Later] Okay. To non-admins it looks like I created this article on 7 July 2011 (unless you happen to be one of those non-admins who check the logs). In fact, I created it after the community specifically authorized its creation at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 June 28.
  • Admins will be able to see that the real original creator was User:Chadlupkes. After Chadlupkes created it, User:Prm1 made it a great deal more promotional. (Special:Contributions/Prm1 shows you that 100% of Prm1's contributions have been deleted.)
  • The promotional version was summarily deleted by User:JzG, who was at that time a sysop.
  • JzG's deletion was brought to deletion review by User:John Vandenberg, who was at that time also a sysop and sometime member of the Arbitration Committee, on the grounds that we ought to have an article about the M1 Group. The community, including tragically now-deceased sometime member of the Arbitration Committee User:DGG, agreed.
  • As you can see from the M1 Group talk page, I created it by translating from the French Wikipedia article, at fr:M1 Group. On checking this again now, I suspect that the French Wikipedia article was itself a translation of the en.wiki article version originally created by User:Chadlupkes.
  • Therefore the correct result of this AfD is to undelete the history from first creation in order to restore attribution for compliance with the Terms of Use.
  • Finally, I would note that although I translated this from French, I don't speak Arabic. You would expect any company based in Lebanon and owned by a former Lebanese Prime Minister to have sources in Arabic, but I don't know the correct search terms. In view of the company's entry on the Dirty List for its dubious activities in Myanmar, I would also suggest searching for sources in Burmese (and, considering the geopolitics, possibly Hebrew).—S Marshall T/C 16:19, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • All of the namedropping of the arbitration committee, which doesn't decide content, is irrelevant. The old history up to but not including the advertising blurb rewrite, is now undeleted. Perhaps we can concentrate on sourcing now. Uncle G (talk) 11:46, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The references in the article currently consist of routine coverage (WP:ROUTINE), which is typically found in Indian media (WP:NEWSORGINDIA). Apart from that, the article entirely fails to meet the WP:NCORP guidelines. Baqi:) (talk) 09:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BEFORE shows no coverage in reliable, independent sources. Fails GNG. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 08:14, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Jeraxmoira,
I’ve gone ahead and made the necessary changes as discussed. I’ve worked to address the concerns, and I hope everything aligns with your expectations now. Please take a look and let me know if any further adjustments are needed!
Please approve it.
Thanks,
Shashi. Shashi Boinapalli (talk) 00:23, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete‎. plicit 14:27, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:ORGCRIT. Unable to find significant coverage which are independent of the subject. Fails to satisfy WP:NCORP. Sooterout (talk) 07:29, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Delete Only the Data Breach case seems notable; yet, it does not sufficient to fulfill WP:NCORP. SATavr (talk) 10:56, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The article subject may lack the required notability. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 07:16, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

comment Well it may, but I'd be surprised, the article has been patrolled, it has multiple reliable sources over several years, detailed accounts that are both national and international, well sourced photos of both her and her creations.... and that is assuming we ignore the additional stuff on youtube etc. All of that together defines notability for me. Victuallers (talk) 11:04, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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As a local councillor, I don't believe she meets WP:NPOL. Coverage merely confirms she was in council or contested the federal election. The misconduct incident doesn't add to notability. LibStar (talk) 07:55, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Conologue, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Appears to be an early post office back-added to the topos from an old map. Need more evidence that that of an actual settlement as these maps recorded post offices as well as actual towns. Mangoe (talk) 03:09, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Baker (p.101) says that this was a post office, and warns that we might have to search for Conlogue. So I did. The printed 1980s version of the GNIS database records this as "Conologue Post Office", which is a bit of a clue in itself. I found Conlogue in Jackson in an 1869 government listing of post offices.

    But those of you fresh from the discussion of Fleming, Indiana (AfD discussion) will enjoy what I found after that, which was Conlogue in a table on p.65 of the 1876 Monitor Guide to Post Offices and Railroad Stations in the United States and Canada which says "(R.R. name, Fleming's)". So this is the earlier name for the post office by Fleming's station on the O&M.

    But other than the shipping guides and post office directories: I found nothing.

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  • Delete both Conologue and Fleming. Thanks for your effort, Uncle G, and if we have to do this much digging to find whether a place actually existed, and there is still uncertainty, then we don't have enough info for an article. Essentially a WP:V fail. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 12:23, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Keep It meets WP:GEOLAND: a quick search of Newspapers.com shows that it had a school up to at least 1947, a cemetery, and a church in the 1960s and 1970s. There were still burials at Conologue Cemetery up to 2021. RebeccaGreen (talk) 10:20, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • OK, then where is it? The church is not at the location that GNIS gives for the "populated place", and looking at where the church was on the topos (and there is a building at that location appearing in the aerials up to 1960; it disappears before the next one in 1983), it sits in isolation; there's no town there. Unless the news clip says, there's no indication where the school was, and in any case neither schools nor churches require towns to exist. Again, it's a familiar issue: without direct evidence of a town from people talking about it as such, there's nothing inconsistent with this being a locale with no distinct village/town. Mangoe (talk) 22:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • This article from 1986 [90] explains where Conologue school house, church and cemetery were (are, in the case of the cemetery). Looking at the sources again, I find none that describe Conologue as a town or village - at most they say "Conologue community". They all say things like "Conologue school, Redding township". I am now !voting to Merge this article (and the Fleming one) to Redding Township, Jackson County, Indiana - and editing that to list Unincorporated Communities (like Conologue) or to list schools, churches, etc (there are plenty of newspaper articles that do just that - eg, they published scores for each school in Jackson County, by township). There are sources which can be included in the Redding article to provide information about its facilities over time. RebeccaGreen (talk) 15:39, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
        • I'm going to add other sources here, so they are available to add either to this article, if kept, or to Redding Township, Jackson County, Indiana. A 1963 report of a fire refers to "the old Conologue school" [91]. Sisters Eva and Phoebe Brooks Quinn reminisce in 1990 about Fleming and Conologue [92]. School attendance records in Jackson county, 1932, part 1 [93] and part 2 [94]. 100 year old Lydia Nichter tells kindergarten students about Conologue school etc [95]. Schools in Jackson county listed by townships (Redding and Carr) and scored, part 1 [96] and part 2 [97]. Jackson County Fair display about old schools, 1995, part 1 [98] and end of article [99].
        • I strongly disagree with an "unincorporated community" list in the township, simply because these aren't unincorporated communities. That's just sweeping the mess elsewhere. Yes, listing schools and churches is the way to go; and in other states this is what the (19th century) sources themselves do, too. In Kansas, for example, the government reports have lists of schools and churches in the Board of Agriculture annual reports (Biennial report — Kansas State Board of Agriculture at the HathiTrust Digital Library) for each individual county. The real question is whether Indiana naturally breaks down by county or by township as far as sourcing is concerned. Uncle G (talk) 11:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
          Is there a source that names unincorporated communities in Indiana? Conologue and other places like it seem to meet the definition of unincorporated community given in Unincorporated area#United States. 1920s papers (eg Jackson County Banner and The Tribune (Seymour, Indiana)) published social information for communities like Conologue, Spraytown, Indiana, and others with hard-to-search names like Oak Grove, Pleasant Ridge, etc - examples from 1926 here [100] and here [101]. Here's a notice to Conologue Community in 1928 [102]. People are described as "of Conologue" as late as 1956 [103]. This is not at all my area of expertise, and I'm not going to put more time into it. It may need someone to write more histories or directories of whatever these places are/were. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:16, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Not seeing evidence that this was more than a short-lived post office at a rail point. Mangoe (talk) 03:02, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Especially as Baker says (p.133) outright that it was a railway station that later gained a post office. ☺ After no success with a lot of histories and gazetteers, I finally located this as Fleming's in a table on page 80 of W. F. Allen's 1874 Gazetteer of Railway Stations in the United States and the Dominion of Canada. It was on the Ohio & Mississippi. That source says that the station served a population of 200, but makes no statement about what form that population took. Fleming's is in the station listing for the O&M in James Macfarlane's 1890 An American Geological Railway Guide too. The post office is in the 1899 USPS directory. But no Lippincott's nor the Thomas gazetteer has a Fleming or Fleming's, out of the several that they do have, in Indiana. Uncle G (talk) 08:16, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak delete, does not appear to meet WP:GEOLAND. The only result I have found so far in Newspapers.com is this [104] from 1975, about a road crossing a railroad "at or near Fleming, Spencer-Redding Township", that two farmers used to get to their farms. It's not easy to search, as Fleming is a common surname, and there was a school in Duckcreek township called Fleming School five miles north and one mile east of Elwood, Indiana - but unlike Conologue, Indiana, it does not have lots of mentions as an inhabited place. RebeccaGreen (talk) 10:48, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The article fails Wikipedia:Notability (events) as I cannot find sources for it that are not simply routine coverage contemporary to the fire. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 03:00, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • delete The Nairobi News article specifically says that the issue at the market is that fires are common, basically every year of late. This implies that there's nothing special about this fire. Mangoe (talk) 03:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    People are murdered everyday but some murders are being covered more than the other. So, if we are to follow your analogy, murders should not be covered on the encyclopaedia because obviously, people are being murdered everyday. Best, Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 06:48, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment – I don't think their point is that any event that happens daily should be excluded. A murder that's covered on Wikipedia has some kind of significance or notability to it. The nominated article at present doesn't have a claim of significance or notability to it, and the objections of the delete side is that the coverage appears routine. Yue🌙 07:06, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete – Per WP:MILL. Absolutely ordinary event, with no major consequences. Svartner (talk) 23:14, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and move. The sources provided by FuzzyMagma seem to indicate that while this event isn't notable, the market is. There's plenty of other coverage as well to meet GNG, since it's apparently one of the largest markets in East Africa. [105], [106], [107][108][109] -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 05:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG and all the sources cannot establish WP:SIGCOV. Ibjaja055 (talk) 07:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Collapsing WALLOFTEXT LLM !vote
Keep Gabriel Edgal – Meets WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV

I believe the article Gabriel Edgal meets Wikipedia’s General Notability Guidelines (WP:GNG) and Significant Coverage (WP:SIGCOV) standards based on the following points:
	1.	Substantial Leadership & Notability in African Banking
	•	Gabriel Edgal has held executive leadership roles in major financial institutions across Africa, including:
	•	CEO of Oakwood Green Africa, a financial and trade advisory firm.
	•	Promoter of Bloom Bank Africa, a banking group with operations in Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
	•	Former CEO of First Atlantic Bank Ghana (2013–2016).
	•	Former Africa CEO for United Bank for Africa (UBA), overseeing 18 African countries.
	•	His leadership across multiple financial institutions aligns with WP:ANYBIO, which recognizes significant figures in business and finance.
	2.	Independent, Reliable Media Coverage (Meets WP:SIGCOV)
	•	Gabriel Edgal has been featured in multiple independent news articles, discussing his impact on banking, digital finance, and trade facilitation in Africa.
	•	Here are key references demonstrating substantial coverage in independent sources:

[https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/African-youth-must-play-a-central-role-in-building-the-continent-Gabriel-Edgal-1937399 Ghana Web: African youth must play a central role in building the continent – Gabriel Edgal]

[https://ghanaiantimes.com.gh/mansa-papss-digital-platforms-to-facilitate-trade-boost-economic-development-mr-gabriel-edgal/ Ghanaian Times: Mansa PAPSS digital platforms to facilitate trade, boost economic development – Gabriel Edgal]

[https://dailyguidenetwork.com/mansa-platform-papss-to-boost-trade/ Daily Guide Network: Mansa Platform & PAPSS to Boost Trade]

[https://www.modernghana.com/news/656855/first-atlantic-bank-ceo-gabriel-edgal-woos-investors.html Modern Ghana: First Atlantic Bank CEO Gabriel Edgal Woos Investors]

[https://gna.org.gh/2023/06/digital-payment-systems-can-ease-currency-depreciation-oakwood-green-ceo/ Ghana News Agency: Digital payment systems can ease currency depreciation – Oakwood Green CEO]

[https://thecalabashnewspaper.com/afreximbank-oakwood-green-africa-engage-the-press/ The Calabash Newspaper: Afreximbank & Oakwood Green Africa engage the press]

[https://www.afreximbank.com/feda-invests-in-bloom-africa-holdings-limited-to-support-its-expansion-in-west-africa/ Afreximbank: FEDA invests in Bloom Africa Holdings to support expansion]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZFfAxUgoF0 Gabriel Edgal on Financial Markets (YouTube)]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZL78wJyPiw Trade Finance & Economic Policies (YouTube)]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3TTrrHZJEk Afreximbank Discussion (YouTube)]

	•	These sources provide substantial coverage beyond routine announcements, focusing on his impact in trade finance and banking innovation.

	3.	Comparable Wikipedia Articles Exist

	•	Gabriel Edgal’s notability and media coverage are similar to other African banking executives who have Wikipedia pages, such as:
	•	Daniel Wilson Addo – CEO of Consolidated Bank Ghana. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wilson_Addo Daniel Wilson Addo]
	•	Given his equal or greater recognition and media coverage, his article aligns with precedent cases for business leaders.

	4.	Alternative to Deletion – Consider Draftification

	•	If concerns remain regarding WP:SIGCOV, I propose moving the article to Draft space instead of deletion.
	•	This will allow further improvements, sourcing, and verification rather than outright removal.

Gabriel Edgal is a highly notable figure in African banking with independent media coverage that meets Wikipedia’s notability standards. Instead of deletion, I suggest retaining or draftifying the article while improving references.  

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The result was speedy keep‎. Withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Cavarrone 22:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The article is tagged with {{sources exist}}, but none have been included in the talk page and I couldn't find anything particularly useful. Rotten Tomatoes only lists one critic review from Dread Central (no idea of the reliability of this source), and beyond that I could only find these Q&A interviews in Scars (a primary source at best, with little in the way of editorial additions). I don't know what Donaldd23 saw back in 2020 when they added the tag (pardon the ping Donald, but I figured I should just in case you still remember what you found and where), but I can't find it now. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 07:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn: Solid list of references. Thank you both. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 21:00, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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A non notable lawyer and entrepreneur. The sources in the article and a WP: Before could not establish notability. Ibjaja055 (talk) 06:51, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Based on a BEFORE, I do not believe Basu meets WP:JOURNALIST. The only sources I have been able to find are primary and/or lack significant coverage. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 06:51, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adam B. Sefkow (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Assistant professor who works on team projects in high-energy physics with no major awards, WP:TOOSOON. Page was Prodded since his h-factor of 35 is small for the field, particularly as almost all of his publications have 5-32 coauthors. PROD was opposed by Espresso Addict with the argument that 35 is enough to possibly pass WP:NPROF#C1, it appears unaware of the consensus that h-factors have to be field normalized. As has previously been discussed at WT:NPROF, an h-factor of 35 is very notable in math; a good start in solid-state physics and low for high-energy physics. There is also the need to consider the number of authors, de-emphasizing large team citations such as he has been involved in. Ldm1954 (talk) 06:39, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment. Not unaware of any of that, just unkeen to set a trend of uncontested prods of academics with that kind of citation profile. I don't pay much attention to the h-index, more to the total citations and the citations of the top papers. Here both appear healthy (5386 in total, with the top papers 732, 506, 242, 189, 178 and a further ten papers >100); I don't think the wider discussion of AfD is unwarranted even if it turns out I'm the lone soul opposing deletion. Will look into it a bit further on the morrow. Espresso Addict (talk) 06:54, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Very few of these papers have anything like 150 coauthors; they are mostly in the range of ~12–20. Ignoring those with >=10 coauthors, the top papers seem to be 732, 189 (1st author), 120, 110, 72. Several of those I've omitted, Sefkow was placed third, which at least in fields I know would be one of the major contributors (1st, 2nd, 3rd, last). There's also the award, which I'd say was more early to mid (under 42 years) than early career. I'm coming down on neutral; I don't feel an urgency to delete, but I'm willing to go with the flow. It would be good to hear from the article creator, Debrah Minkoff. Espresso Addict (talk) 21:41, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. In a field where some of his highly-cited publications have 150 coauthors, we cannot set much store on h-index and citation counts of all publications. This sort of pattern of publication immediately gives most researchers publications with high citation counts, and the h-index is merely an indicator of longevity, not of being a leader. It is too indiscriminate and I don't think the standard should merely be that all high-energy physicists are notable. Alternatives are to look for notable awards and society fellowships, distinguished and named professorships, or heavily-cited first-author papers. His "Design of magnetized liner inertial fusion experiments using the Z facility" is first-author and has triple-digit citations, but it's the only one. He is an assistant professor so WP:PROF#C5 is out of reach. There is a 2017 reference for two awards [110], but one is really just a startup grant (not a prize or medal) and the other is also an early-career award [111]. I don't think it's enough. —David Eppstein (talk) 08:17, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Does not pass WP:NBIO. She has achieved nothing in her life, so she does not deserve own encyclopedic entry. Being married to a notable person does not make her a notable person. FromCzech (talk) 06:36, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is the case for many wives of heads of state that articles about them focus on what they look like and what they wear (whether they achieve anything themselves or not). The WP article on Brigitte Macron says "Her style of dress at international meetings has often been commented upon." That seems to be what is considered notable about her (and the age difference between her and Macron .....) - and gets written about. RebeccaGreen (talk) 13:18, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The only indepth coverage I could of him was his unfortunate death. Take away that and his career was unremarkable. So WP:BLP1E applies here. LibStar (talk) 06:15, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:NPOL. Taabii (talk) 05:54, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Promotional biography for a non-notable showbiz lawyer. Contested draftification; moved back to mainspace without improvements. Sources do not support WP:GNG, WP:NBIO or even WP:NPRODUCER as the films he has produced are not notable. The sources are WP:TRIVIALMENTIONs in coverage of other subjects: ([115], [116], [117], [118]), affiliated, non-independent sources: ([119], [120], his own website); and an LA Times reference, but it's in the sponsored/business directory section, not independent news coverage ([121]). Nothing else found in BEFORE search. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:15, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I prodded this due to being unable to find any sources discussing this location (only a couple mentioning the adjacent "Gamble Hill Drive" and "Gamble Hill Croft"). Another user expressed scepticism towards the completeness of my searching, noting that they found the location on Google Maps. I am listing it at AfD to see if anyone can find any sources that would establish notability. — Anonymous 03:43, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - Created more than a decade ago. Only three sentences total. No sourcing at all. — Maile (talk) 04:12, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • The best that I can turn up are books on the mining industry (e.g. ISBN 9780118843553) that report that the quarry that you see here in Armley (which was a township and an ecclesiastical parish) was a mine into the Elland flagstone, and a couple of 1960s sources breathlessly announcing modernization programmes that report that it was flattened and built over by (subcontractors to) the Leeds Corporation in the 1960s. Uncle G (talk) 09:58, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Bramley, Leeds. There's an image of the Gamble Hill estate in that article. In 19th and 20th century newspaper sources the road Gamble Hill and subsequent developed area of Gamble Hill are usually written as "Gamble Hill, Bramley". It is recognised as a named suburban area by Ordnance Survey in its Open Names database, so could have presumed notability under WP:NPLACE, but as the article is unsourced and there seems little coverage other than mentions, it's probably best redirected for now. Rupples (talk) 22:09, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • The borough and civil parish that contained Bramley and Armley both, back in the time of those 19th century sources, was Leeds, according to White's 1838 History, Gazetteer and Directory of the West-Riding of Yorkshire. So addresses from the 19th century are going to be a little tricky. It doesn't help that Gamble Hill doesn't appear in things like Wilson's 1860 Our Village: A Sketch of the History and Progress of Bramley During Seven Centuries. Here's what one book says, by the way:

      A substantial area of land immediately to the east of Hough End Tannery, between Old Farnley and Bramley, Leeds, was investigated by the then Leeds Corporation for housing in the 1960's.

      — Godwin, C. G. (1984). Mining in the Elland Flags: A Forgotten Yorkshire Industry. BGS reports. H.M. Stationery Office. ISBN 9780118843553. ISSN 0950-9313., p.7
      So it was between towns (as the map confirms) until it was built over. There are notices putting out the development of the "Gamble Hill Housing Estate" for tender in places like the 1957 The Surveyor & Municipal & County Engineer. Seeing a 1962 source that laundry lists all of the individual houses that the initial development contract was for, I have a sinking feeling that one might be able to write something very dull about the housing estate. But let it be in the Bramley article, I think.

      One of the breathless announcements is the fairly obviously rehashed press-release titled "Leeds Road Contracts for Hargreaves" in the 1966 Roads and Road Construction, for the record.

      Uncle G (talk) 14:48, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Redirect to Bramley, Leeds, per Rupples. I did a quick search when this was still a prod and didn't find anything signficant enough to support an article but it definitely is a historical settlement. Espresso Addict (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Newspapers.com has some hits for "Gamble Hill"; the ones I looked at have variations on "Gamble-hill, Bramley, near Leeds" in the late 19th C. Espresso Addict (talk) 15:46, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: it can't be redirected to Bramley, Leeds because that article does not mention it except in one image caption. Googling (hoping to add a sourced mention of it to the Bramley article), all I can find in the first few pages is a census report which treats "Gamble Hill" as a street name, equivalent to "Henconner Lane". If someone later adds content about it to the Bramley article, then the redirect can be re-created. There is no sourced content here to merge. PamD 12:40, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. For what it's worth: Talk:Gamble Hill#Objection to Prod of 5 February 2025. Thank you very much! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 21:55, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Center, Jay County, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Once again the evidence for this being a "village" is Baker's say-so, and he has proven to be a weak reed. There is a cemetery, because there is a church, and that is what is there now. I expected searching to be mostly fruitless and so it mostly was, and in particular I didn't turn up a handy county history. But I did turn up this account of the founding of this church (which is very handsome on the outside, BTW) which turns out to have been United Brethren, at least when it was started; the largest portion of the UB church was eventually folded into the UMC, and in any case I could not tell whether the church is still in use. Anyway, what's particularly interesting about the account is that while it indicates that there was once a schoolhouse at the location, it rather conspicuously says nothing about a town. This proves nothing of course, but I would remind newcomers that a schoolhouse is not proof of a town either. That's basically all I found; possibly someone can find out more. Mangoe (talk) 03:21, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This article does not meet Wikipedia’s notability guidelines for biographies (WP:BIO). The subject lacks significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. The citations provided are either self-published, primary sources, or trivial mentions. The Los Angeles Book Festival award appears to be a pay-to-play contest rather than a widely recognized literary honor. The bibliography consists entirely of self-published works, which do not contribute to notability. Additionally, the National Geographic reference does not substantiate the claim regarding the winery. Given the lack of verifiable, independent coverage, this article does not demonstrate the subject’s encyclopedic notability and should be considered for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NicholasEyes (talk • contribs) 03:01, February 6, 2025 (UTC)

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The result was procedural keep. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alon9393/Archive#12 January 2025. (non-admin closure)Geschichte (talk) 17:45, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Calito Soul (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This is being done on behalf of 190.219.102.104. I have no personal opinion in this discussion. — Anonymous 02:46, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Bands and musicians, Music, and Panama. — Anonymous 02:46, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete — observe the reasons of Zzarch and Safiel for trying to eliminate that article, an article that in the Spanish version points out that the singer is still alive and reading the article there is nothing for which he stands out. article is that it indicates that the singer died in 2015. When in reality he died in 2019, that article was created in a mysterious way https://m.metrolibre.com/cultura/calito-soul-esta-vivo-KCML10581. 190.219.102.104 (talk) 03:13, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy withdraw — I now see that I've apparently been duped by someone who has done this several times and reliable sources have already been found in the past discussions. I'm not sure where this apparent grudge against this individual is coming from. The IP probably should be blocked as clearly NOTHERE.
  • Comment - Whatever is going on here should stop because we have had three AfDs in three months for this singer, all devolving into clunky attempted withdrawals or sockpuppet accusations. There is no reason to start an AfD on someone else's behalf. The third AfD debate in this series (just three months ago) revealed several sources with reliable info about the singer, but nobody ever used them to improve the article. The current version of the article could be expanded per WP:NEXIST. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:39, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and speedy close per WP:NEXIST. Past AFD clearly showed WP:SIGCOV. I agree that this IP needs to be blocked for disruptive editing.4meter4 (talk) 15:15, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per the results of the third AfD in Nov. 2024 and my other comments above. The article can be improved and expanded, outside of whatever this bizarre repetitive process is trying to achieve. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Cheryl Moana Marie Nunes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Subject is only notable due to her marriage with Antonio Sabàto Jr. - see WP:INVALIDBIO. Martey (talk) 23:56, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - I disagree with the comment on her notability tied to her husband. The only section that has sourcing is her Personal life. The career section is totally not sourced, but that section shows her notability. — Maile (talk) 01:38, 16 January 2025 (UTC) I have changed my vote to Delete. I've been searching for info on her for weeks. Nothing comes up. — Maile (talk) 03:08, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: there are multiple claims to notability. She did more recently receive press from her marriage with Antonio Sabàto Jr, but she meets WP:SINGER for creating the Hawaiian Tropicè theme song, singing the Star Spangled Banner for various notable events, etc., WP:ENT for TV work such as Starz... CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 02:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:SINGER says "regardless of what notability criterion is being claimed, the claim must be properly verified by reliable sources independent of the subject's own self-published promotional materials". Before listing this article, I looked but I couldn't find any reliable sources that predated her marriage to Sabàto.
If you are aware of any reliable sources that establish her notability as a singer (or anything else), please add them to the article. Without the existence of such sources, notability can't be proven and the article should be deleted. Martey (talk) 20:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete. I don't agree that "this person is clearly a big celebrity" or even that she is "famous". Her IMDb page has only 4 news items (see https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0547234/news/ ), all of which were to report her marriage to Antonio Sabato Jr. I wouldn't consider Sabato that big a star, but IMDb has 223 news items about him. And to compare that to someone who is clearly a superstar, IMDb has over 40,000 news items about Taylor Swift. Judging from the sources in this article, it appears that to the extent that Nunes receives any media coverage at all, it is WP:INHERITED from her relationship with Sabato, as all of the cited sources other than her own web site include Sabato's name in the headline. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:21, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Bobtown, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This book's explanation of the name's origin for a place in Clay County strikes me as a bit of a "just so" story, but it's about all I get besides Baker. I'm just not finding a trace of the place searching and there's nothing there which suggests it was really a town. @Uncle G:? Mangoe (talk) 13:44, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The interesting thing is reading Baker, p. 71. Baker tells us that xe can only guess at what this is because it doesn't appear any maps that xe has consulted. It's like reading a deletion nomination rationale straight out of the source. ☺

    Wanting to be thorough, although one could just leave it at that, I did some looking. There's a biography of John Mellencamp (ISBN 9780857128430) that says that this was the original working title of The Lonesome Jubilee because Mellencanp's grandparents "once lived there".

    Other than that, though, I have turned up nothing. There are some soil surveys that name a soil type after this, but they aren't documenting the (supposed) town. The gazetteers only turn up the place in Massachusetts. I couldn't even construct more than a vague opening sentence of an article, with zero hope for expansion or clarification, because even the biography only narrows it down to Jackson County, and is only indirectly reporting the existence of the place based upon Mellencanp's recollection of how xe named a music album. For a place, I'd prefer a geographer to a biographer.

    Uncle G (talk) 17:06, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep: I added a 2015 local newspaper article source, as well as a Billboard magazine cite about the Mellencamp connection. The property owner name Mellencamp appears right near the location on some plat maps. eg [122]; though not listed as "Bobtown" on that one, you can see where the school was located, and there are a bunch of smaller plots centered at the location. It was/is an unincorporated community which has receded into remembrance, like so many U.S. midwestern locales.--Milowenthasspoken 22:24, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Adding: there are 101 hits for "Bobtown" in the archives of the Seymour Daily Republican (1898-1920), on internet archive [123]. Mostly mundane reporting of what's happening in the community. But more than enough to show it was a recognized populated community.--Milowenthasspoken 22:35, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • Checking out a random sampling of the Daily Republican and finding random things like reports of football teams with "CORTLAND" as the headline, and "Lawrence Phegley sold a cow" without any sort of clue about a Bobtown, this seems to be another case of counting the number of hits rather than reading the sources. I challenge you to find just two of those newspaper hits that actually tell you what Bobtown is, the basic "Bobtown is a …" introduction part of an article. Should be easy, right, with 101 of them? So prove it. And as you note, Billboard is Mellencamp's recollection, as I discussed above. That map that doesn't say Bobtown at all is a contraindication, if anything, and yet more support for Baker saying that this isn't on any maps at all. The only real source is Spicer, which you've mis-cited by the way, but which doesn't say vital things like that it was a town, or a village, or even a hamlet. There's a one-room rural school and grocery story run by a Bob that apparently gave rise to a nickname. Uncle G (talk) 02:36, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I said the daily republican hits were "mundane", you're telling me to prove they aren't mundane? is this a trick? Don't let your obvious hate of the work of John Cougar Mellencamp cloud your opinion of the once beautiful small rural Indiana community which went by the name of Bobtown. There are USGS maps which list Bobtown on them, by the way e.g. bottom third center here [124]. Seriously though, I understand your view of notability of such places like this varies from mine, and that's ok.--Milowenthasspoken 19:57, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Altaf Tadavi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No other reason of notability except winning a season of Big Boss, a notable reality show. The subject fails WP:ENT and WP:MUSICBIO. Also see MC Stan, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MC Stan, this and this Taabii (talk) 11:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Rolling Stone India articles are about his music career and don't fall under NEWSORGINDIA, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 23:04, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: The previous AfD happened before the three Rolling Stone articles were published. If we group all the Rolling Stone coverage as one and add the Bigg Boss title coverage, the subject seems borderline notable. Some sources call him an undeserving winner. Considering this and the fact that Indian media publishes a lot of articles, I wouldn’t argue for a strong keep, but it does pass GNG and there is enough to write a neutral article. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 11:42, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:NCORP. Sources are routine coverage or directory listings. Deleted by PROD in 2006. Jfire (talk) 01:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: This one's borderline but I'm leaning Keep. This source from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke discusses the use of ADInstruments products in their biology coursework, and this article from the Otago Daily Times is over the line for significant coverage. It's not ideal, but it is sufficient. HyperAccelerated (talk) 21:45, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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List of knitters in literature (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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WP:NLIST doesn't have the clearest criteria and lists usually seem to end up kept at AfD, but this particular one seems trivial enough to test usual convention. I don't think there are enough major literary characters specifically known for knitting to warrant the existence of this list. — Anonymous 01:40, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep - An interesting list. Those of us who had required reading in school of A Tale of Two Cities remember Madame DeFarge knitting and knitting...and then knitting some more. The Knitting navbox at the bottom is helpful. — Maile (talk) 04:59, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete even if somehow notable (doubtful, and the article's 0 sources do not go any way to proving that) nothing here is salvageable. Knitting is not defining for any of these anyway, and almost all are not notable. PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:28, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I think the broader topic of knitting in literature would plausibly be notable — a quick search found quite a few sources that discuss it as a literary theme (e.g. [125] [126] [127]). But WP:NLIST would require sources that discuss "characters who knit" as a group or set, and I'm not really seeing any evidence of that. There are sources that use specific characters/texts to analyse how knitting features in literature, but none that describe "knitters" as a defined group. And I agree with PARAKANYAA that there's really nothing salvageable here, this is just an unexplained collection of characters who happen to be described knitting. MCE89 (talk) 10:37, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep or possibly merge to Knitting. This is both fun and obscure, but as obscure does not mean not notable: @An anonymous username, not my real name: Was the opinion that this topic is trivial and I don't think there are enough major literary characters double-checked with the WP:BEFORE search which is required before a deletion nomination? Looking at the sources brought up MCE89, I cannot access the first one, but the other two to me seem to cover "knitters in literature" as a group at least as much as "knitting in literature", both having (female) knitters already in the title. The book Sock by a reputable publisher likewise covers knitters in literature as a group starting p. 99. So I think these establish the minimum for notability and WP:NLIST. For other sources like Victorian Needlework and Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles knitting may be in the forefront, but they still talk about various knitters, and showcase that them being knitters may not be their central trait, but has a specific relevance for each character.
Now, granted, a clear inclusion critereon is not defined so far, but that's a problem that can be solved on the talk page is therefore no grounds for deletion. I would suggest to use secondary sources, both those listed and others, and then only keep those characters where secondary sources talk about them knitting being a characteristic. If this should in the end lead to a short list, it can be merged to Knitting. If someone wants to reorient this article to cover the knitters in literature embedded in a Knitting in literature article, I have no objections. But again that would be no grounds to delete everything first. Daranios (talk) 16:13, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
These sources are good, but I still would argue that they discuss Knitting in literature more than knitters in literature. Under different circumstances, perhaps a merge would be viable, but the target doesn't exist plus have you seen the page? There isn't really anything salvageable. — Anonymous 18:03, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@An anonymous username, not my real name: That's a new argument as compared to the nomination. And indeed the article currently looks pretty bad. But seeing that some entries we have now are treated in more detail in the found relevant secondary sources, I think it would still be good to keep as a starting point to the improvements I've described above. Thanks for acknowledging my first small steps in that direction. Also see the discussion on a prose version below. Daranios (talk) 14:51, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • delete I have to agree with a comment above: I think there's room for discussion of knitting as a trope, but listing all the individual knitters is into WP:NOTTVTROPES territory. Mangoe (talk) 19:28, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment In its current state, this is just a pure collection of WP:RAWDATA absent any meaningful context or analysis. That does not an article make. It does not even make for the beginnings of an article. The editors who say that there is nothing to salvage here is correct—whether the topic is theoretically notable doesn't really enter into it. This is rather a textbook example of violating WP:INDISCRIMINATE/WP:NOTDATABASE, which says To provide encyclopedic value, data should be put in context with explanations referenced to independent sources. As such, WP:DELREASON#14Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia—applies. Analysis, not examples, is what makes an encyclopedic article (examples can support the analysis, but can never replace it). It seems likely that a Knitting in literature/Knitting in culture/Knitting in fiction article (or whatever title is most suitable) would be appropriate, but there is nothing at the page presently under discussion that would be of any use whatsoever for that. TompaDompa (talk) 21:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge into Knitting or ideally a "Knitting in X" article as @TompaDompa: mentioned. I was initially planning on !voting weak delete given the only reasonably non-self published material covering this I could find was this from The Believer (magazine) and this from the Port Jefferson Library, but after reading over @Daranios:'s reply, I'll support keeping it on the site in some form, but I don't think there's grounds for keeping the standalone list on the site, as Tompa put it. --PixDeVl yell talk to me! 00:21, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @PixDeVl, out of curiosity, what content would you recommend merging? The list is extremely poorly formatted with copious misuse of external links, and I don't think its material is usable anywhere on Wikipedia in its current state. An article being messy is not a reason to delete it, but it is very much a reason to not merge its content. — Anonymous 01:22, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @An anonymous username, not my real name: Thinking over, really it's more a merge of concept then info, since unless more sources can be found regarding those characters specifically(possible!), the only good sources I've seen are the Believer and Port Jeff ones I linked above(neither of which are used in the list being discussed), which could be used to make a small section on knitting in culture with examples on the Knitting article, IMO. I do think finding enough sources for Knitting in culture would be best overall. PixDeVl yell talk to me! 05:04, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Knitting was so common back then, of course some characters would do it. All the references I click on are dead links, so I can't see if this was a significant trait or just a passing mention. Are these major characters that have things written about their knitting at times in the books they are in? Dream Focus 06:54, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dream Focus: Would you perhaps like to check out the sources listed above to answer your qeustion? Daranios (talk) 11:54, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Knitting as a concept in fiction may be notable, but characters knitting seems to be less so. As it stands, this list doesn't meet notability guidelines for its given topic, and there's no content worth preserving, meaning a move wouldn't be viable either. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 00:55, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Extreme case of poorly written proof for WP:NOTTVTROPES. Badly formatted, badly referenced, not encyclopedic WP:FANCRUFT. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:55, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The 2nd and 3rd sources found by MCE89 are titled "Worsted, Weave, and Web: The Cultural Struggles of the Fictional Knitting-Woman" and "Women Knitting: Domestic Activity, Writing, and Distance in Virginia Woolf's Fiction". Both "knitting-woman" and "women knitting" refer to knitters, even if not using that word. One of the sources found by Astaire is titled "An Incomplete Survey of Fictional Knitters". (Thank you to two Delete !voters for finding sources!) The book Sock that Daranios found appears to have 5 or 6 pages on knitters in literature (I can only see snippets). So four sources that discuss knitters in fiction. It also seems clear that there are enough sources for an article on knitting in fiction, and it wouldn't surprise me if there was enough for knitting as protest (eg [128]), which is not yet even mentioned in the Knitting article. This list definitely needs improvement (removing external links and providing some context would be a good start), but doesn't need deleting. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:27, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - The sources that are being mentioned might be useful in creating a completely new article or article section on the broader concept of knitting in fiction, but do not do anything to justify or support a itemized list of specific fictional characters that have knitted. And as this particular list is a poorly written list with no sources to justify the entries or context to allow readers to actually glean any information from, there is, as said by Pokelego999, no content here worth preserving. Rorshacma (talk) 16:26, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per RebeccaGreen. I'm surprised to find that sources exist and have been presented. The current status of the article, and whether or not it is indiscriminate, may be remedied by regular editing, and hence no policy-based reason for deletion remains. Jclemens (talk) 21:35, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Whether the WP:NOT issues could in fact be remedied by regular editing or are inherent to the concept would seem to be a point of contention here. If one takes the position that they are inherent to the concept, then WP:DELREASON#14Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia—still remains as a policy-based reason for deletion. TompaDompa (talk) 14:19, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • In what way would NOT apply to this list that could not be remedied by regular editing? Jclemens (talk) 05:43, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
        • The argument would be that this is fundamentally not appropriate for a list approach, and that the steps that could be taken to end up with an acceptable article on a similar topic (which would then have a different title and entirely different contents) does not constitute regular editing of this article. There seems to be broad support for a knitting in literature prose article (or corresponding section in the main knitting article), as noted. TompaDompa (talk) 06:40, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]