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The result was Delete.  JGHowes  ^talk 01:29, 7 October 2019 (UTC) reply

Patrick Samba

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PROD contested by article creator. Technically (maybe) passes WP:NFOOTBALL by playing in the Finnoish top division (it's fully-professional status in 2006 is unknown), but he only played for 63 minutes according to this. No ither career to speak of, and more importantly he fails WP:GNG. There is plenty of consensus at AFD that scraping by on NFOOTBALL when you fail GNG so categorically is not sufficient. Giant Snowman 14:12, 14 September 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 14:13, 14 September 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 14:15, 14 September 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Netherlands-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 14:15, 14 September 2019 (UTC) reply

• Keep Patrick Samba has relatively high coverage in Bulgarian and Begian media, including a comprehensive interview. Also, it seems to me that articles that gat deleted for this reason are deleted because they use/show all their sources available, rather than just writing a few unsourced lines or have a profile as the only reference so viewers assume they are notable without doing any research. Thanks, Das osmnezz ( talk) 23:28, 16 September 2019 (UTC) reply

• Keep This article, too, meets the WP:GNG. WP:NFOOTBALL as well but in first instance the GNG is met. Given the discussion here and the comments by nom, this item should not have been prodded. Prodding is for more obvious cases. gidonb ( talk) 13:32, 2 October 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete - Article about a semi-pro footballer who may have made a single substitute's appearance in a fully-pro league (if the Finnish top-tier was fully-pro back in 2006). There is plenty of routine coverage of this footballer in English-, Bulgarian-, Finnish- and French-language sources (match reports, transfer announcements, database entries). I can't find any significant coverage (including the sources cited in the article), although I cannot access the L'Avenir (Belgian newspaper) website to determine if any of those articles would meet SIGCOV. Without more, this article also fails the GNG. Jogurney ( talk) 15:39, 2 October 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete per Jogurney. 4meter4 ( talk) 19:12, 5 October 2019 (UTC) reply
• Weak Delete Weak, only because I'm not an expert on sports, but this sure looks like somebody who's not notable. Things like, "Attempted to earn a contract", and the side job as a receptionist sure sounds like there's nothing else worth writing about him. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:41, 6 October 2019 (UTC) reply

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• Delete – lack of GNG sources. – Leviv ich 22:38, 6 October 2019 (UTC) reply

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