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The result was KEEP. postdlf (talk) 17:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Abdulrahman Akkari[edit]

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Yes, I know, a footballer AFD. Before you start quoting WP:NFOOTY, it says that people playing in a fully professional league "will generally be regarded as notable". Here, I am saying that this article is an exception to that generality. There are no available secondary sources (and no, stats are not secondary, they are primary), and I have a good faith belief that such sources do not exist. There may be a language barrier problem, but since we are the english wikipedia, sometimes language barriers happen. The Wordsmith^Communicate 16:12, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep stats are enough for WP:V. We make things much simpler by having a simple rule for when to keep these tens of thousands of articles , rather than discussing them one at a time. The subject doesn't interest me, but keeping our discussion here limited to stuff worth deleting does interest me. DGG ( talk ) 19:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:17, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:17, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per DGG and there are actually enough English language sources to verify basic details such as membership of clubs. There is Asian-wide coverage such as [1], [2], [3] and [4]. So imagine how many Arabic language sources there must be (unfortunately the multitude of clubs named Al-Wahda make it a pretty difficult task for me to find). --Mkativerata (talk) 20:35, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- He has also played in the Asian Champions League for his former club Al-Karamah: [5] In 2006, he played in the Al-Karamah team that qualified for the Champions League Final: [6] --Mkativerata (talk) 21:02, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 15:41, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - passes WP:NFOOTBALL. Giant Snowman 15:52, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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