Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/August 20, 1955 Stadium (Béchar)


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The result was keep. Per WP:NEXIST (non-admin closure) KCVelaga (talk) 06:15, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

August 20, 1955 Stadium (Béchar)

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The requirement under WP:NGEO is that an article has significant independent coverage. While it is true that there are numerous mentions of this stadium under its common name in various media, I cannot find a mention that passes WP:SIGCOV - namely, a mention that addresses the stadium directly and in detail. Instead, all the mentions are in discussions of matches that were played in the Stadium and thus do not meet the requirement. With that said, I would be surprised if there was nothing out there, though scouring the other Wikipedia's suggest that this may be the case; if something could be found I would have zero objection to a Speedy Keep. NoCOBOL (talk) 07:46, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep There's at least coverage here, and considering it's the home of a team which frequently appears in continental competitions I'm sure there's more per WP:NEXIST:   SportingFlyer  talk  04:06, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - Searching for the name of the stadium in French, which is Stade 20 Août 1955 (Béchar), I found a lot of news and sources talking about it as it can be found here. It's also the home of Algerian side JS Saoura, a club that plays in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, the top tier league of the Algerian football league system and also plays in the 2018–19 CAF Champions League and reached the group stage; so it's surely going to be needed. Note that I've previously nominated the article for renaming to Stade 20 Août 1955 (Béchar) per WP:COMMONNAME. Ben5218 (talk) 21:20, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I found a lot of the same sources, but the issue is that the mentions are trivial, such as the example I posed above where it is talking about x match at the stadium. These are not sufficient to meet the requirements for notability. NoCOBOL (talk) 05:12, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * There's plenty of sources, though. Of course a brief mention in a match article doesn't count, but there are enough articles which discuss the actual stadium to make this a clear keep. SportingFlyer  T · C  05:22, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. The refs noted above look fine to me. Szzuk (talk) 15:13, 18 January 2019 (UTC)


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