Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kenya_International References

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 keep. Not a lot of substance to the delete arguments here, and this group nomination is problematic. Please make an individual nomination if you want the community to reconsider. A Train^talk 17:17, 29 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Kenya International

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No notability established. Only link is a results database. Also the medalists are mostly red links (which again questions the notability of the event in itself). Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 21:17, 21 July 2017 (UTC) Also nominating the following for the same reasons: reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kenya-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:23, 21 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:23, 21 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Delete Article reads more like a list of statistics than a Wikipedia entry. TH1980 ( talk) 03:13, 22 July 2017 (UTC) reply
Comment:@ TH1980: I have added a few more tournaments that are very similar to the first one. Do you have any comment on those as well? Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 03:47, 22 July 2017 (UTC) reply

But the article needs more to it than just statistics to make it a full-fledged Wikipedia entry. There needs to be a block of text describing the history of Kenya International in addition to the statistics. TH1980 ( talk) 00:42, 23 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Keep all The reason same with Maldives International, Uganda International, White Nights which was nominated before but the results is keep. It would be great if you improved insted of deleted. Stvbastian ( talk) 08:22, 22 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Delete non-notable sports competitions. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 05:00, 24 July 2017 (UTC) reply
Comment: These should be separately discussed, as they are independent topics whose notability is unrelated to each other. (There's plenty of news coverage in Thai for Smiling Fish International, by the way.) -- Paul_012 ( talk) 14:49, 25 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Agree to separate. Some articles also coverage in the news. Like LibrePrincess comment in Talk:Kenya International: duckduckgo.com/?q="Kenya+International"+badminton seems to bring up a few news sources that report on the events. standardmedia.co.ke, ugandaradionetwork.com, allafrica.com 1, allafrica.com 2, sportsnewsarena.com. I also added some references on Argentina International and Greece International, and i tried to improve all that articles. Stvbastian ( talk) 14:02, 26 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Keep all. These are except for Singapore and Thailand the highest level international tournaments held in the respective countries and are sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation and Badminton Continental Confederations (and Singapore and Thailand are one of the most important countries in badminton and a second level tournament should be relevant like in the countries of similar importance in tennis for instance). All of the tournaments are similar to comparable events in tennis, or golf for instance. Additionally, there are enough sources here to pass GNG. Looking at some of the winners shows that these tournaments clearly attract some very good players. In comparison (stated in Wikipedia:Notability_(events)), College bowl games (not limited to BCS or College Football Playoff bowl games, see e.g. 2009–10 NCAA football bowl games) or All-star or similar exhibition games are notable. All of the mentioned articles for deletion above are of much bigger relevance than the cited college games. Additionally, similar events were already discussed in detail, with all of them as result Keep. Florentyna ( talk) 19:08, 27 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Keep all high level competitions with existing reliable sources coverage in the articles such as Kenya Gazette, The Nation and The Standard press coverage in the case of Kenya International or available from Google news search Atlantic306 ( talk) 16:49, 29 July 2017 (UTC) reply
Keep And if deletion is to be pursued, they should ne nominated individually, and preferrably not all at once. L3X1 (distænt write) )evidence( 17:16, 29 July 2017 (UTC) reply

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