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The result was delete. Sandstein 21:19, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
Abenezer Temesgen
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Most of the references in this article are unreliable. I've discarded the ones that are obviously no-go on the face of things: YouTube, Vimeo, Indiegogo, etc. Only one of the remainder are reliable. Presented for review:
- The Reporter Ethiopia: In-depth, discusses subject, reliable news organization. Great.
- Ryot.org: site now defunct, no way to determine how reliable it was as there's no indication of an editorial policy.
- The New Africa: largely an ad for their Indiegogo campaign.
- Buzzfeed: Buzzfeed can be reliable at times, but I think this article is a pretty clear example of one of the times it isn't. This is basically Instagram photos peppered with quotes from the subject - it's not really media coverage, it's just revenue generation for Buzzfeed.
- One Nigerian Boy: defunct, but looks like a blog. Mostly interview even if it wasn't a blog, so hardly reliable for notability purposes.
- Frank151.com: interview from small media org.
Other sources located online were largely coverage of skating in Ethiopia, with name-drops of the subject. This CNN article is a good example of what I mean, as is this one from La Depeche. These hits from Online Ethiopia are both exact copies of the CNN article with different headlines. This profile in NATAAL.com looks good until you click their "About" page and see that they have no editorial policy and do brand consultancy, so we can hardly trust anything in it as independent. Finally, this Daily Beast article is just a photo gallery.
Long story short: we can't keep an article with only one reliable source. I'd suggest merge & redirect to skateboarding in Ethiopia, but it's a redlink. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 06:27, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethiopia-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 11:04, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- Delete. See
WP:ONESOURCE and
WP:NRVE. Also, I am against a
skateboarding in Ethiopia article. It is an extremely niche sport in Ethiopia and I am not aware of any country specific articles for skateboarding.
Turtlewong (
talk) 15:32, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- Skateboarding in China would like a word. For the record I'm not suggesting we make skateboarding in Ethiopia, only saying that if it existed I'd have suggested a merge there as an alternative to deletion, but since it doesn't exist that suggestion doesn't work. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 19:48, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- Delete a non-notable sportsperson. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 23:17, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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