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Keep - @
GiantSnowman:, I found these sources which show he is notable in the Northern Mariana Islands:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6, and
7 among other sources. In addition, he is a young, already internationally capped player with an ongoing career,, one of few Northern Mariana Islands players to ever play abroad athe only one in England, nd is mentioned in countless match reports and videos. I feel like the nominator specifically tries to delete only football articles en masse for no reason. I look at the other sports WikiProjects and they don't nearly have an article deleted per day, let alone 30. Article may need improvement, but definitely not deletion. Thanks,
Das osmnezz (
talk) 08:57, 22 July 2022 (UTC)reply
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GiantSnowman 08:43, 22 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me.
GiantSnowman 08:54, 22 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - I would say this very lengthy
Saipan Tribune piece and the
M Variety article are enough for GNG. We need to be wary that there are only two decent newspapers in his country by the looks of things so it's difficult to gain the coverage in multiple independent and reliable sources required.
Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 13:37, 30 July 2022 (UTC) On second thought, the M Variety source is too weak for this to be a GNG pass.
Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:13, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
The M Variety article is almost entirely direct and indirect quotes, and should not be considered independent SIGCOV. That leaves just the Saipan Tribune interview, which has just 8 sentences of non-quoted material and only ~3 that aren't primary or non-independent (like reporting that he thanked various people). Not seeing GNG from these sources.
JoelleJay (
talk) 04:14, 31 July 2022 (UTC)reply
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GuerilleroParlez Moi 09:11, 10 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I too like the
Saipan Tribune '
Comfort Zone' article. The
Marianas Varietyarticle also looks significant - meeting GNG - yeah, there's some quotes in there, but there's coverage as well; I think some editors are looking too hard for reasons to delete articles. These are the two biggest papers in the nation.
Nfitz (
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Talk) 11:04, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. This is a somewhat closer call than most of the other football-related AfDs we've seen recently, but I'm still not convinced that the available sources add up to notability. Of the seven sources cited above, four are clearly passing mentions and one is a Twitter post. That leaves us with two sources: the
Marianas Variety article, which is entirely a non-independent interview (every sentence is either paraphrases Aninzo or quotes him directly), and the
Saipan Tribune article, which is at best a few sentences of independent analysis. Since I've been unable to find any indication that better sources exist (either online or offline), he doesn't seem to have received significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. I understand that there aren't many media outlets in the Northern Mariana Islands, but my view—and, judging from the consensus in the RfC, the view of others as well—is that hewing to the notability guidelines in cases like these is almost always going to be the best way
to ensure that we're only keeping articles that can live up to basic policy expectations.
Extraordinary Writ (
talk) 21:26, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. Per the cogent argument by Extraordinary Writ above. Agreed that the sourcing is too weak to support even a presumption of GNG.
JoelleJay (
talk) 22:56, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Weak delete - I still think that the Saipan Tribune article linked multiple times in this discussion is good. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any other good sources.
Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:14, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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