Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martial Bedi Esmel (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 21:24, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Martial Bedi Esmel
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Was kept at the previous AfD due to a now-deprecated older version of WP:NFOOTBALL, which permitted anyone that played in the CAF Champions League, even if it was one game between semi-pro teams, to have an article. The reference is now dead but he apparently made an appearance in a game between Séwé FC and Mighty Barrolle, both of whom play in leagues listed as not fully professional at WP:FPL, therefore he does not actually meet NFOOTBALL, which requires him to play in a game between two clubs playing in an FPL league.

I have investigated whether he played a game for FC Gloria Buzău and concluded that he didn't because his name does not appear at Statistics Football, a reliable website which exhaustively lists all players that played in the top 3 divisions of Romania for the last 70 years. He also doesn't have a Soccerway page. In fact, all I can find is an empty Transfermarkt profile.

Thirdly, I could find absolutely nothing other than the painfully brief and insufficient transfer announcements already cited meaning that Esmel comprehensively fails WP:GNG, which supersedes NFOOTBALL anyway. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:45, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 22:24, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Article about semi-pro footballer which fails WP:GNG. Almost no online English-, French- or Romanian-language coverage, and none of it is SIGCOV. Jogurney (talk) 13:35, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails GNG and NFOOTBALL. GiantSnowman 16:49, 3 September 2021 (UTC)


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