Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farouk Ben Mustapha

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 01:25, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Farouk Ben Mustapha

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Can find no evidence that this player has played in a professional match to meet WP:Athlete and there is no significant coverage from reliable sources that I can find to meet the notability criteria. Prod was removed without comment by page author. I am happy to keep the article if evidence can be shown that WP:Athlete or WP:N are met but otherwise it should be deleted. Camw (talk) 06:58, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. The subject has played in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1, whose very name tells us that it is a professional league. He would also appear to pass the general notability guideline with some of the articles found by the Google News search linked above being focused on him, such as [1], [2] and [3]. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:50, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The first two sources look very much like a blog/fansite (their about page says "Tunisia-is a site Foot.com nonprofit made by enthusiasts for enthusiasts of Tunisian football") but may just scrape by as a reliable source. The third doesn't constitute significant coverage, all it says is that if other players are injured/ill then he may start a game. Camw (talk) 23:02, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Passes wp:athlete. In addition has had call ups as an international. sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 07:05, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:ATHLETE. Conditions of membership of the Tunisian top league require a club to have a minimum of 16 contracted professionals, see the Tunisia Football Federation website [4], which in my view makes it a fully-professional competition (and I've added it to the list of fully-pro football leagues accordingly). His club play in that league, and Ben Mustapha was in the starting eleven for their latest league match [5]. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:39, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep - Per previous comments. He passes WP:ATHLETE, which is sufficient to merit keeping the article. Sir Sputnik (talk) 12:56, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep has been called up for a major international tournament. Eldumpo (talk) 20:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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