Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Morocco

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Mohamed Said Raihani

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I'm not convinced this person is notable. The incredibly sparse references don't indicate anything. All his published works appear to be through self-publication companies, not through an actual publisher. Searches for this person doesn't turn up much other than indications they're adept at self-promotion. And a final thing is the edit history of this article is almost entirely full of SPA accounts that appear, edit the article heavily for a day or two, and then never log in again. It very much looks like the same person just keeping creating new accounts to edit. The whole thing smells purely of self-promotional advertising and resume. Canterbury Tail talk 20:51, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Journalism, and Morocco. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:23, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rugby union at the 1979 Mediterranean Games

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Reverted redirect without improvement. Searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to support meeting WP:GNG. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:08, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Rugby union-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:20, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Italy, Spain, and Yugoslavia. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 23:51, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep First of all, I've created the page and after a while "User:Onel5969" redirected page despite this notable content. If the internet was widespread in 1979, there would have been more online resources like the 2009 Mediterranean Games. Are we to say that an article is not noteworthy simply because of technological backwardness? Old newspaper archives are invaluable resources for sports organizations and difficult to access unless they have been transferred online. However, when the same information is checked from newspaper sources in different countries, there is no doubt about the accuracy of the information. I used four fundamental newspaper archives for 1979 Mediterranean Games. Slovenian Delo and Primorski dnevnik, Spanish El Mundo Deportivo, and Serbian Borba. These four newspaper archives can be accessed free and online. Unfortunately, I'm currently having problems accessing these newspaper archives, but I think it can be solved in time because 3 months ago these archives were active and I remember I used these sources last summer. For this reason, I cannot provide in-line references, otherwise I can create almost the same article like them: Water polo at the 1979 Mediterranean Games and Basketball at the 1979 Mediterranean Games. Because, there is quite a lot of content related to the Mediterranean Games in the sports pages of the relevant newspapers dated September 1979. If the 1979 Mediterranean Games are noteworthy, I don't think there can be any doubt that the sports of these games are noteworthy. If the sports of the Mediterranean Games are not noteworthy, I can throw away my research in the newspaper archives. The Mediterranean Games are no different from the Asian Games or the Pan-American Games. Because there are many articles on sports such as Sepak takraw at the 1990 Asian Games, which is not a widespread sport, but I'm surprised that the notability of a sport such as rugby, which is widely popular around the world, is questioned in an international sports event where countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea compete.

All in all, I think it would be very unfair if this page is deleted because I can't provide in-line references or because the newspaper archive links are temporarily not working. However, please feel free to delete it if it will not be noteworthy just because it is rugby, even though I can footnote the relevant sources score by score as a result of the discussion here. You can even delete the other 3 rugby pages in the Mediterranean Games (in here. I would also like to ask for suggestions for other sports articles such as water polo because I don't want to spend hours adding information for a team sport other than football, basketball and volleyball if it will be deleted like this.

P.S. I've checked this page and so far no rugby related article in any international sports organization has been deleted except for the Maccabiah Games which is an international multi-sport event featuring Jews and Israelis.--Sabri76'^talk 07:39, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – Per above. Svartner (talk) 16:27, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Just noting that neither of the !votes above are actually based in policy.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 21:22, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]