Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beyene Legesse

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The result was redirect to Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres. Star Mississippi 03:11, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Beyene Legesse

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Fails WP:GNG, as no WP:SIGCOV can be found or identified. Meets WP:NATH, so an AFD is required rather than a PROD. BilledMammal (talk) 05:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. BilledMammal (talk) 05:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethiopia-related deletion discussions. BilledMammal (talk) 05:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this single reference microstub unless it can be expanded by referencing reliable, independent sources that devote significant coverage to this athlete. If any such source is produced, I will gladly change my mind. Currently, this article is based on an Olympics database website that is closed down, calling verifiability into question. Cullen328 (talk) 06:01, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Though the original website (of the lone citation) was closed down in 2020, Wikipedia's own article on the company Sports Reference mentions the Olympics information was relaunched under a different domain name. I have updated the article with the current page for Beyene Legesse. Platonk (talk) 07:16, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect if nothing can be found on this chap to Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres, per WP:ATD. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 10:45, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete do not redirect. We do not have enough information to show notability. If we follow the suggestion of redirecting all these non-notable Olympians, we will end up with some birth year categories being well over 10% redirects, maybe over 20% redirects. At present most birth years categories are well under 1% redirects. If the people are not notable we should just delete the articles. I can see exceptions when we have targets that actually say something about the person, but that is not really the case here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres. There seem to be a few other Beyene Legesses out there but none are plausible as being the subjects of this article. I will point out that all 59 competitors in the 1956 Men's 100 metres have wikipedia articles, even runners who finished around the 12 second mark. The majority are stubs created by our colleague Lugnuts. Whatever consensus we reach may be relevant to these articles too. Fiachra10003 (talk) 20:48, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @Fiachra10003: I'll try to boldly redirect the inappropriate ones once this AFD, and the ongoing NSPORTS RFC, is closed. BilledMammal (talk) 23:03, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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