Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1977 Tunisia v Egypt football match


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The result was delete. Star  Mississippi  16:38, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

1977 Tunisia v Egypt football match

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From previous AfDs on football matches this year, we have a very high bar for notability. See Articles for deletion/Bremer SV 0–12 FC Bayern Munich and Articles for deletion/Liverpool F.C. 1–2 Grimsby Town F.C. (2001) for example. Yes, those matches had stats databases and basic match reports to verify them but there was no indication of historic significance, much like this match up for AfD today. There is no evidence of any WP:LASTING notability here or any WP:GEOSCOPE - was this match covered widely across the globe and is it continually revisited, even many decades later? I can't see anything to suggest this. I appreciate that this game led to Tunisia qualifying for their first World Cup but there is no notability guideline that means we need to keep an article just because it led to a team qualifying for a major tournament.

References fail to show significant coverage in line with WP:GNG and the topic is adequately covered in 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) and Egypt–Tunisia football rivalry among other places and there is no reason to have a WP:NOTSTATS-violating article on this match. I did do a quick WP:BEFORE search to see if I could find some detailed coverage of this game but it was just stats databases like the ones cited already. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:51, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete - unremarkable match with no lasting significance -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:58, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, the author has spent a bit of time here putting the article together in good faith, which is a shame for them but it is ultimately not a notable match. The only claim of significance is that it was the match which secured Tunisia's place in the world cup for the first time ever, but as we know, notability is not inherited. Bungle (talk • contribs) 22:07, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 18:37, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, Per above, the match is not notable. Alex-h (talk) 13:10, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable. I agree with Bungle. Mommmyy (talk) 19:58, 9 December 2021 (UTC)


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