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Atre Bezabeh

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Declined prod. Whilst non-databases sources are welcome, the added newspaper sources are small non-SIGCOV mentions like this, this and this . Articles like this and this don't even mention this athlete. Fails WP:SPORTSCRIT. LibStar (talk) 01:33, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Olympics, Sport of athletics, and Ethiopia. LibStar (talk) 01:33, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Ethiopia at the 1980 Summer Olympics#Athletics – As WP:ATD. Svartner (talk) 03:00, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Articles like this and this don't even mention this athlete" – All linked articles above actually do mention the athlete specifically by name, see the 4th para in Evening Star and the caption in Evening Standard. Part of WP:BEFORE is to evaluate the existing sourcing in the article which includes reading them. The Evening Star coverage is significant which says he was "becoming a force in the world at this event". See for example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Van Lam Hai which has been kept on similar grounds. --Habst (talk) 12:38, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To be precise, the full quote is "[Sebastian Coe] should not be unduly tested even though Ethiopian Atre Bezabeh has recently shown signs of becoming a force in the world at this event", which is to say that he wasn't much of a force in the world, at least not enough to test Seb Coe. This is anyway just a passing mention, as was the coverage in the caption on the other Evening Standard article.

I think also the person who added these sources needs to take a long look at WP:RSNP. FOARP (talk) 13:03, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I added those sources, I have a lot of respect for your contributions. I agree that WP:RSNP is important and it says about Evening Standard, "Despite being a free newspaper, it is generally considered more reliable than most British tabloids and middle-market newspapers" (emphasis mine). I would be cautious about leaning on its reporting of gossipy tabloid-type subjects, but on sports reporting from the 1980s there's no indication of any issue. --Habst (talk) 13:23, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per Svartner. Fails WP:NSPORT due to lack of IRS SIGCOV. As well as the usual Google search, I've done a search of the internet archive, and Eastmain's Middle East & North Africa newspaper database and have found no instances of SIGCOV. FOARP (talk) 13:09, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. No IRS SIGCOV. Non-database sources are passing mentions and namechecks.
5: Ethiopia have nominated Atre Bezabeh, Abebe Zerihun and Haile Zerow to run against Seb Coe in the 800 metres... N.
6: 800 metres: Atre Bezabeh, Abeeb Zerihun, Haile Zerow. N.
7: Sebastian Coe on the way to victory last night...and Ethiopian Atre Bezabeh (No 7) was left in his wake N.
8: His main opposition is likely to come from Ethiopia's Attre Bezabeh who clocked a more than respectable 1 minute 47 seconds for the 800 metres at 8,000 feet altitude just ten days ago. + [sentence mentioning Bezabeh with no coverage of him] N.
9: He should not be unduly tested even though Ethiopian Atre Bezabeh has recently shown signs of becoming a force in the world at this event. N.
10: ET—from Atre Bezabeh, Abebe Zerihun, Hale Zerow N. JoelleJay (talk) 16:22, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Noting my opposition to merging, and in general opposition to adding any content not directly related to the redirect target. JoelleJay (talk) 16:47, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]