Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zabih Etemadi


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The result was keep. MelanieN (talk) 23:24, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Zabih Etemadi

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Procedural nomination; proposed for deletion by GiantSnowman, but deletion challenged by Abhinabha. As I speak neither Dutch nor Farsi, and know virtually nothing about Dutch football, I don't consider myself competent to judge the validity of sources and whether there's enough coverage to constitute notability. Procedural AFD nom, so I abstain. &#8209; Iridescent 09:27, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete as original PRODder - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 10:50, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - notability now confirmed; article needs improving, not deleting. GiantSnowman 08:51, 11 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete fails WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTY. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:57, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Passes WP:NFOOTY. The editor who challenged the proposed deletion said at Talk:Zabih Etemadi that they "included a link to a well-known soccer website where Etemadi's profile can be seen". And so they did: at Voetbal.com, the Dutch-language edition of Worldfootball.net, which shows ten appearances in the Eerste Divisie for Cambuur. The Eerste Divisie is listed as a fully professional league within the meaning of WP:NFOOTY, and 10 appearances in it isn't a bare scrape in an obscure league. The 2003 Friesch Dagblad piece about subject and his then 16-year-old brother, which was in the article at the time it was prodded, opens with "Zabih is de meest bekende van de twee voetballende broertjes; hij stond dit seizoen al enkele malen in de basiself van Cambuur Leeuwarden", which means "Zabih is the better known of the two footballing brothers; this season he's been in Cambuur's starting eleven several times". And even from just the sources in the article, we can see that media attention is ongoing. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:21, 11 June 2016 (UTC)


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