Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nadi al-Jam'iyya al-Islamiyya


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The result was   keep. Courcelles 00:00, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Nadi al-Jam'iyya al-Islamiyya

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Contested PROD; there is no evidence that this football club is notable by sporting standards, and having links with Hamas is not enough to show notability. GiantSnowman 13:21, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 13:22, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per the general notability guideline. Phil Bridger (talk) 13:58, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * How does it meet the GNG? GiantSnowman 14:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * With significant coverage in the independent reliable sources cited in the article, including a whole book chapter about the subject. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:28, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Any evidence that the coverage is "significant" - the chapter in Ref1 appears to be about "Football and Islamism in the Gaza Strip", not the club specificially, while Ref2 appears to be a passing mention and nothing more. GiantSnowman 14:56, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * According to the introduction of the first book referenced the whole chapter is based on this club. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:17, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Is one chapter in a book "significant coverage"? GiantSnowman 15:23, 14 September 2011 (UTC)


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 * Keep, Sufficient coverage to meet the GNG. See for example Jørgen Bæk Simonsen: "Youth and youth culture in the contemporary Middle East", p.117. Marokwitz (talk) 20:13, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * A passing mention in a book is not "significant coverage." GiantSnowman 20:17, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * For now striking I'm out my !vote. I think my initial evaluation was wrong, need to look into this some more. Marokwitz (talk) 20:28, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment If kept, this article needs a complete rewrite, since this is not a football team, as incorrectly implied by this article. See "Youth In the Context of Oblation and Perpetration of Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism: The Hamas Case. by Onur Karaköse". p.15 Marokwitz (talk) 20:42, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, what is it then? GiantSnowman 20:45, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * It is a sports club, for a variety of sports. 21:26, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep I did a quick search for the club in Arabic (نادي الجمعية الإسلامية) and it seems like they are a football club that just won promotion to the Palestinian top flight. A search for the full name of the club in Google returned 11,000 hits, from different newspapers . However, I think the club now changed its name to نادي الصداقة الرياضي .. Alsadaka Sports Club. Here is the club's official website: http://www.alsadaka.ps/. They're also mentioned here:, seems like its its a club "from Jabalya refugee camp in the north of the enclave". With that said, I think there's more than enough information out there from a number of different sources to confer notability through WP:GNG. TonyStarks (talk) 20:55, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Good research, are you able to add as much information to the article as possible? If so, I'll be happy to withdraw my nomination. GiantSnowman 21:02, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I guess I could. I should have some time tonight and I'll let you know when it's done. TonyStarks (talk) 21:27, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. An entire book chapter on the team is pretty good ("Football and Islamism"); the other book's only a snippet view so I can't tell how in-depth the coverage is, but it's certainly more than a passing mention, as what I can see says "the article deals with the activities within one of the three Hamas-affiliated sports clubs in the Gaza Strip, the Nadi Jam'iyya al-Islamiyya." Not bad for a region where it's difficult to get stuff on the internet; TonyStarks also notes that they seem to be in their country's premier league. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 07:09, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment the article really needs to native-language version of the name (+the league it plays in) so editors acan check/find sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:16, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
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