Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Africa wins again


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The result was delete. --Core des at 04:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Africa wins again
The article is of dubious notability; the only two sources do not give an account of where the phrase originated or how common it is plus the sources themselves don't seem like proper sources for an encyclopedia. The article, which is essentially a stub, doesn't even completely agree with its definition for the phrase with the sources it quotes. This is not a dictionary for phrases and articles need proper sources that can at least establish some notability. On top of all this, the article is isolated: virtually no other articles link to it The Way 04:56, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * del nonnotable phrase. `'mikkanarxi 05:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete seems like a neologism to me. ColourBurst 06:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete per norm. -  SpLoT  / (talk) 11:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. -- Kinu t /c  14:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Strongest delete. I nominated it for speedy deletion not more than 2 weeks ago but it somehow didn't happen.--Thomas.macmillan 15:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, but edit and switch the redirect so that the west Africa term stays - "west africa wins again" seems to be reasonably common phrase, at least among the expatriat community, and at least as far as Google can find (e.g., "Jonathan Randal, for a long time the New York Times reporter in West Africa, used to refer to WAWA, to describe the area he covered, standing for West Africa Wins Again. The point of this name was that the region is truly hopeless and little can be done." from ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidWBrooks (talk • contribs)
 * Neutral. I came across this article about a month ago, at which point its only source was a book from 1961.  Looks like people have found more recent sources since then.  I've lived in West Africa and never heard the phrase; Googling the largest expats-in-Nigeria site that I'm aware of turns up nothing.     Wouldn't this be more appropriate somewhere like Wikiquote?  ergot 15:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete nn Mukadderat 17:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep --BrenDJ 19:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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