Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Almo Coppelli


 * 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 delete. Liz Read! Talk! 06:50, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Almo Coppelli

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Not enough significant coverage to pass as generally notable. Doctor Rhubarb (talk) 09:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Motorsport,  and Italy.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 10:09, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment – Judging by his DriverDB profile he appears to meet NMOTORSPORT quite comfortably. But more SIGCOV (such as this) needs to be found and the article improved. MSport1005 (talk) 12:10, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is in an awful shape, but he meets WP:NMOTORSPORT criteria 2 (just shy of two races for competing in full seasons in 1984 World Sportscar Championship and 1988 World Sportscar Championship), criteria 3 (several podiums in multiple seasons of World Sportscar Championship in C2 class, a podium in 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP1 class), and criteria 4 by winning rounds of 1996 SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge. However, WP:GNG seems impossible to meet without having some insight into old newspaper sources; my searches have given me nothing aside from passing mentions in books, listings, or sporadic small coverage (like the one above by BBC which I do not consider as WP:SIGCOV). Because WP:GNG overrules WP:NSPORT (WP:NMOTORSPORT being the part of it), and the sourcing state for this WP:BLP is so dire, this is the way it goes. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 12:59, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails GNG. Document archives on Google all appear to be WP:ROUTINE in their coverage. Perhaps there is something more significant in Italian, but the Italian Wikipedia doesn't even have an article on this person. As this is a BLP, I must !vote for deletion even though NMOTORSPORT is met. Wikipedia is not a database. - "Ghost of  Dan Gurney"  16:21, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete – Regrettably the article should be deleted. Although the subject does meet NMOTORSPORT, SNGs are not a substitute for the GNG, and it is plain to see that the subject does not have the necessary coverage to have an article. 5225C (talk &bull; contributions) 01:33, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'm not fully convinced he meets NMOTORSPORT. Certainly his "podium" at Le Mans counts for nothing as it was in class not overall. His championship win for 1984 as described on driverDB is quite suspect (given that it is not a reliable source) as our article, nor the Guiness Guide to International Motor Racing mention a drivers' championship for C2 in 1984. Whether a manufacturer only championship can count towards either criteria 2 or criteria 4 I don't know, but I don't think that the C2 class would count under criteria 2 as it wasn't nearly as professional as the top class. But then ultimately there is no evidence of meeting GNG. I don't think the BBC article above comes even close. A7V2 (talk) 10:55, 5 March 2022 (UTC)


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