Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stuart Banda

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The result was keep‎. Not a strong consensus, but a consensus. A possible merge of new material can be discussed elsewhere. Goldsztajn (talk) 02:45, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stuart Banda

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Declined prod. The 2 added sources [1] and [2] are not indepth coverage to meet WP:SPORTSCRIT. An unremarkable career, never made it to Olympics and 37th in world championships. LibStar (talk) 01:45, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Sport of athletics, and Africa. LibStar (talk) 01:45, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Malawi at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. Fails GNG due to a lack of SIGCOV. As always, a redirect does not prevent any user from adding some content from the sunject's article into the target, ideally with discussion on the target's talk page. Frank Anchor 13:36, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to weak keep per refs 3 and 4 below, which add just enough SIGCOV to be considered GNG-passable. I do maintain that redirecting is a viable ATD if there is consensus not to keep. Frank Anchor 15:59, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, I just expanded the article with several new references that include SIGCOV. It's sad but true that most African countries do not publish durable news and analysis from even ten years ago – the SIGCOV articles in this case were only from 2015 but are still only accessible via webarchive which is not searchable, and they wouldn't show up in any Google search. There are surely more, but I'm not aware of any way to access them unless archive.org creates a webarchive search in the next few years. --Habst (talk) 14:12, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Just barely; of the newly added sources, [3] and [4] look like WP:SIGCOV if you squint. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:56, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(No objection to Frank's suggested redirect either.) Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:57, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – Passes in WP:NATHLETE. Svartner (talk) 16:44, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.