Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soama Tafia


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The result was   redirect to Tuvalu National Football Association. Jenks24 (talk) 14:20, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Soama Tafia

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Individual apparently has a senior role in the Tuvalu National Football Association. However, the biographical article is completely unreferenced and does not really show why the subject is notable. No third party sources in the article talk about what he has done. Seems to be a very minor figure in Oceanian football and does not appear to pass WP:GNG Fenix down (talk) 10:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Soama the many have done for the Tuvalu football, he is an important man at the TNFA. The Tuvalu National Football Association are recognise member of the FIFA. There its many sources concerning him. --Klant01 (talk) 12:56, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Tuvalu are not a recognised member of FIFA, only of the OFC as their article clearly states. If there are many sources, please provide them. The article as is is completely unreferenced. The external links point to a variety of primary sources. this is the TNFA official website and could only be a primary source, this is the website to the foundation you are directly involved in promoting football in Tuvalu and is therefore again a primary source with a potential conflict of interest, this is a completely irrelevant article about somalian piracy involving the article subjects brother, not him and so is a source for nothing at all (except perhaps somalian piracy) and this is a link to his church and is therefore also a primary source. Only this comes even close to discussing him in football terms as the manager of the futsal team in one competition. I do not think that this is enough to fulfil the general notability guidelines. If there are as you say many sources for him, please provide them, but make sure they are substantial third party references please. Fenix down (talk) 17:46, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 09:31, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Tuvalu National Football Association - no evidence of independent notability, but a plausible search term.
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - no indication of notability, fails WP:GNG. Redirecting like GiantSnowman suggests might be good too. Mentoz86 (talk) 18:06, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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