Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vladimir Cheptenari

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:17, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vladimir Cheptenari

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I'm not able to find any sources that satisfy WP:GNG or WP:SPORTBASIC about this footballer. Passing mentions like ESP and FMF were all that I could find. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:22, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and Moldova. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:23, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:30, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Zero references, and his club career seems to have gaps. Svartner (talk) 17:01, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: As happens often in Eastern Europe, one has to get creative in finding sources. The Russian version (over 40% of Bălți residents are Russian speakers, according to the 2014 census) of his name gives a few hits from sports media in Moldova, these two being on the extensive side: [1] [2]

Apparently both are linked to an incident where he injured another footballer during a match.

Here he is briefly mentioned as missing next game due to having amassed too many yellow cards, while here he is listed on account of having scored an own goal. By this time he was playing for FC Grănicerul Glodeni in the Moldovan second tier.

Furthermore, he appears to have had a parallel career in local politics, which included alleged death threats from the mayor of the town, a former political ally: [3] [4] [5] [6]

There is likely to be more, but I don't have time to look around, nor have I looked at these in depth. I do not know if this enough to save the article, either, and while I'd say it might be worth keeping, it would take someone to be willing to add information to the article, as well as filling in the gaps in his career using stats sites. Cheers. Ostalgia (talk) 20:49, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's probably enough to build a biography from, to be fair. I'd have said his football coverage probably just falls short of GNG but the politics stories seem to be enough. Since only 4% of Moldova is Russian and his name looked Romanian to me, I just presumed he was of Moldovan ethnicity, so presumed he wouldn't have much in Russian, but I was wrong clearly. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 22:35, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No shame there, it was a reasonable assumption - you are most likely right about his ethnicity after all. Cheers. Ostalgia (talk) 08:21, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me. Giant Snowman 11:11, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 22:03, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The two pure Q&A interviews 1 2 contribute nothing. The politics articles have very little info either--his picture among many3; a story mostly about accusations from his wife towards the Balti mayor where the only secondary independent coverage is In 2015, Vladimir Keptenari entered the Municipal Council on the list of Our Party. On January 15, 2018, he even took part in a hunger strike , which was then announced by PP advisers in protest against the pressure on advisers from the ruling PDM party.4; a blurb on his municipal councilor candidacy alongside 26 other candidacy blurbs5; and another piece on his wife's accusations that has no coverage of him6. Nowhere near enough coverage to meet GNG, let alone NPOL (which considers a lot of candidacy coverage routine).

JoelleJay (talk) 01:05, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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