Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ali Al-Hamadi

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The result was keep. Fenix down (talk) 06:14, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ali Al-Hamadi

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Footballer who fails GNG and NFOOTY. Recreated after recent PROD (I suspect a sock). --BlameRuiner (talk) 06:09, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iraq-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 15:00, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - meets GNG per BBC and WalesOnline sources. Needs a good tidy up though. Giant Snowman 15:04, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep- meets GNG with more than one source and can be seen on Swansea City FC official club social media accounts and website several times. MisterWiki2k (talk) 03:57, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep A story about the guy from BBC Sport Wales, it's not quite there for GNG to me, but pretty dam close. Govvy (talk) 11:29, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep two GNG sources = keep. Nfitz (talk) 21:33, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The WalesOnline article quotes massive chunks out of an article from Swansea's club website, pads the article with stuff about the Iraq national team and finishes off with a few quotes from the BBC article. The BBC article isn't enough to pass GNG. If Al-Hamadi wasn't an Iraqi immigrant the articles would have never been written. Keeping the page would discriminate against other players who don't run away from their country during a war. Dougal18 (talk) 11:37, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That has to be the most creative use of WP:BIAS to support deletion that I've ever seen User:Dougal18. And surely questionable given the systemic racism that does exist in western society! Articles are good enough, and the comment about "running away" demonstrates that there's no NPOV in this comment! Nfitz (talk) 18:14, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe the WalesOnline article with its clickbaity headline is enough for GNG. Quoting massively from other sources is lazy journalism. Googling him only returned the BBC and WalesOnline articles and a load of casual mentions. If Al-Hamadi was someone called Dai Jenkins and was from the valleys those articles wouldn't exist. If Al-Hamadi had stayed in Iraq those articles wouldn't exist either. Dougal18 (talk) 19:21, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Surely, he'd be as likely to receive coverage, User:Dougal18. Given how much coverage he's had in Iraq already, with articles such as this and this. I'm not sure why you are claiming he's ONLY had coverage in those two articles. That they are more than enough to meet GNG doesn't mean there isn't other stuff. Scoring a goal during the Olympic qualifying probably gave him enough Iraqi coverage to also meet GNG. Nfitz (talk) 22:21, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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