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The result was delete. there is no independent sourcing that backs up the claims to notability, so nothing to merge. Star Mississippi 14:57, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Viliamu Sekifu (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG. All current references in the article are trivial mentions at best. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 22:49, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and Oceania. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 22:49, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 19:00, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 19:07, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom - fails WP:GNG. --Angelo (talk) 22:37, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep passes GNG, the sources aren't trivial.--Ortizesp (talk) 17:25, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: No independent, reliable sourcing of this stub. No evidence of notability. No suggestion that his level of play meets any extant notability criteria. A reliable source must be independent, AND reliable, AND provide significant coverage TO the subject in order to meet the GNG's standards, and for Ortizesp to repeatedly ignore that these sources are coming from the football federations (and thus not independent) or from blogposts (and thus not reliable) is either extremely careless or outright disingenuous. Ravenswing 21:33, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep as per Ortizesp. Sekifu also scored probably the most important goal in Tuvalu football history, and would've definitely received coverage in local newspapers, as there are no local online sources regarding Tuvaluan news. Davidlofgren1996 (talk) 04:18, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: What specific sources do you claim provide independent, significant coverage to the subject? Ravenswing 13:23, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, unfortunately. Perhaps someone may want to create Taui Saiasi Hauma, who at least has the olympics source going for them? I also found on Google Books "Football Club Geopolitics: 22 histoires insolites pour comprendre le monde", a French book that writes a few pages about Tuvalu football as a whole but is unfortunately only a trivial mention of Sekifu. casualdejekyll 18:42, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep References 5 and 6, although not mainly about Sekifu, detail his important positions and his statements about Tuvalu's participation in the Olympics, which I think meets SIGCOV. EternalNomad (talk) 04:21, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fenix down (talk) 23:03, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, per Ravenswing. GNG not remotely demonstrated. JoelleJay (talk) 02:52, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge with Sport in Tuvalu: Concur that this player may have scored the most important goal in the nation’s history with the sport, and that fact is valuable encyclopedic knowledge to be WP:PRESERVED at the larger National article. However I can’t see anything suggesting the individual player article can meet GNG at the moment. If someone uncovered some sources, it can be restored at that time. - 2pou (talk) 17:04, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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