The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus to delete. As noted in the discussion, sources need not be in English. bd2412 T 15:51, 2 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Faisal Buressli

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Fails WP:NBASKETBALL. Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 22:03, 15 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Comment - I am not familiar with the notability guidelines for basketball players, but this coach/player has a few references and was the first Kuwaiti to be awarded a basketball scholarship to play college basketball in the US. At least he is interesting. Best Regards, Barbara  ✐   ✉ 22:22, 15 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Nat965 ( talk) 09:07, 16 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bahrain-related deletion discussions. Nat965 ( talk) 09:07, 16 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC) reply

• Strong delete references are a dime a dozen, and none of the ones on Buressli show notability. Basketball scholarships in the US are also a dime a dozen. Only very exceptional college basketball players are notable, and Buressli clearly does not fit into that category. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 04:38, 19 April 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep based on WP:GNG and the expectation that given the claimed awards there willbe many arabic-language sources. Anah Mikhayhu Leonard ( talk) 23:57, 22 April 2018 (UTC) reply

• Keep, As coach of the national team, there are many English-language sources, which probably satisfy gng. But there are undoubtedly many more Arabic sources. This is one of a batch of around two dozen articles nominated by the same individual and part of a pattern of WP:BIAS, nominating numerous articles of non-American individuals, often with not even the most rudimentary regard for WP:BEFORE, most of which have already been closed as keep. A waste of all of our time. A sampling of these recently closed AfDs includes Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Appoorva Muralinath, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shiba Maggon, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Akanksha Singh, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Anitha Pauldurai, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Stanley Ocitti, there are several more. One of the nominated (and kept) articles, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ram Kumar (basketball) is one of the all-time greats of Indian basketball. There has been one AfD in this batch that I found to have been deleted, and a few that have not been decided. Jacona ( talk) 21:22, 23 April 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete Fails WP:GNG with lack of significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. Don't mistake Google hits of trivial mentions for significant coverage. Fails WP:NBASKETBALL. No new sources have been added to the article, or presented by participants here. No prejudice against recreation if non-English coverage identified later. As it is, the most coverage I found is from some blog hosted on blogspot.com, with no indication that it is reliable. Per the guideline WP:WHYN, significant coverage is needed "so that we can actually write a whole article, rather than half a paragraph or a definition of that topic." This is not encyclopedic enough to WP:IAR.— Bagumba ( talk) 09:12, 25 April 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep There appear to be many Arabic-language sources as well as English ones. Enough to get it over the WP:GNG hump. Smartyllama ( talk) 20:09, 27 April 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep Meets GNG. Sources don't have to be in English. ~ EDDY ^{( talk/ contribs)}~ 13:10, 2 May 2018 (UTC) reply

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