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Hello Stifle. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion ofLiwa al-Sharqiya, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A3 does not apply to articles with an infobox. Thank you.Whpq (talk)14:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Stifle, while I can see how you get to "no consensus" for a particular outcome, I think it's important to note the overwhelming opposition to retaining the page as a standalone, especially given that the minority of arguments for keeping wereall invalidated.
We have 8 !votes to delete or redirect, all citing our guidelines requiring GNG SIGCOV for sportspeople. I do think it is also somewhat telling that two of our most active sportsperson AfD closers, @Vanamonde93 and @Asilvering, opted to voice their preference to delete in the last two days... Then we have two merge !votes, which also oppose retention as a standalone (but don't address how the trivial info in the stub really warrants a merge). Finally, we have just 4 keep !votes: the first cites NOLY as its sole rationale, even though the subject is explicitly disallowed from qualifying for NOLY and, even if he did meet that criterion, the article would still be required to cite an IRS SIGCOV source. The second keep makes the exact same incorrect argument. The third is, literally, ILIKEIT. And the fourth is invalidated by the fact that Olympic gold medals were rejected as notability-presuming by one global consensus and thisspecific medaling situation was explicitly excluded by unanimous consensus from applying to any considerations of Olympian notability.
In my opinion, there is a clear consensus to remove the article from mainspace, and with the large majority of !voters favoring deletion, coupled with the strong arguments against redirection/merging, a delete outcome would be the best outcome. I would also like to point tothis DRV on an AfD with a similar !voting pattern.
Thanks!JoelleJay (talk)19:31, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
unless the athlete competed in an event with fewer than four competitors or teams (i.e., when all participants received a medal)." A keep based entirely on the assertion the subject "meets NOLY" for an Olympian whoobjectively does not should always be discounted, just as we would do for a !vote on an academic based wholly on an assertion that they meet NPROF #6 through being a dean of arts and sciences. And this isn't even addressing theother objective criterion in SPORTCRIT that would require this article to cite a source of IRS SIGCOV even if the subject met NOLY, something not a single keep !voter even addressed.JoelleJay (talk)15:42, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Rublamb is claiming your closure also means that the table has to be retained. From what I understand: the article wasn't deleted as is the purpose of the AfD. It was kept based onWP:N. Removing the table is normal editing. What are the next steps?Logoshimpo (talk)17:01, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just trying to follow this adviceTrade (talk)08:41, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So you're saying the article can be restored if I am able to add a decent amount of content on him? Since I can certainly do that.BeanieFan11 (talk)13:47, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, you closedWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samanta Sarmin as delete. I wondered, is it possible to draftify the page that was there, so that it can be worked on?Dsp13 (talk)18:50, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done atDraft:Samanta Sarmin.Stifle (talk)22:01, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]Obviously I disagree with this outcome as nominator, but I have to point out that no actual argument was put forward to keep the article within our PAGs. Or, if there was one, it is not reflected in your close.
It is also very obvious that no-one has any intent at all of addressing the issues with this article, ever, not least because they aren't actually surmountable because there is no source for the information that it wishes to present. It has been kept solely because it is one of a set. The outcome of this close, if it stands, is just this article getting nominated again at a point in the future, hopefully with the outcome of that AFD not being determined on numerical count alone.
My advice is to re-open the discussion with a note thatWP:OSE,WP:USEFUL etc. are not convincing arguments within our PAGs.FOARP (talk)11:23, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Would you please consider reopening the above AfD? I fail to see how you can objectively close an AfD in which you have yourselfparticipated...Rosbif73 (talk)13:37, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, I'm not necessarily trying to debate whether it should've been no consensus, but I'd like a bit more explanation at how you arrived at the idea that the gamemight be notable. From what I can tell, all the "keep" arguments were citing - as the article describes it - "its bizarre, scrambled music" as the sole reason for notability, but an article about the game itself can't rely on music alone as the only significant coverage from reliable sources. This would appear to set a bad precedent that one can stonewall an Afd withirrelevant arguments and still achieve the article being kept.ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ)02:59, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]