Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hussein Al-Bishi

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:41, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hussein Al-Bishi[edit]

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The only thing I can find on him are profiles. Upper Deck Guy (talk) 02:41, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports and Football. Upper Deck Guy (talk) 02:41, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and Saudi Arabia. Skynxnex (talk) 04:52, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 16:50, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per IAR/COMMONSENSE. Over 50 caps for national team, appeared at 3 major tournaments. Will there be coverage of him in Arabic sources? Absolutely. Giant Snowman 16:51, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Per above. Seriously... I found [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5], among many more Arabic sources... definitely has many offline sources having been significant Saudi player in pre internet age... Article needs improve not deletion... Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 18:06, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, lazy nomination with no BEFORE done.--Ortizesp (talk) 04:40, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Al Riyadiyah has some coverage of Al-Bishi that looks significant: This interview includes a paragraph on his career exploits, and This confirms that he scored a goal in Al Hilal SFC's 1989 King Cup final victory (definitely not significant coverage, but an important achievement for sure). I'm going to look further, but unless someone has checked Arabic-language sources, we won't know if SIGCOV exists. Jogurney (talk) 22:26, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - I checked online Arabic language coverage and it's pretty insignificant. A few sources mention Al-Bishi's career achievements, but most of the coverage consists of interviews with the subject on recent developments at his former club or regarding the league or national team. That said, he played in the 1980s and 1990s, and I can't access any coverage from that era online. I understand that Al Jazirah (newspaper) has an online archive going back to the 1980s, but I'm not skilled enough in Arabic to use it effectively. Overall, knowing Al-Bishi's importance to Al Hilal and the national team, and our lack of access to sources published contemporaneously with his career, I think this is a reasonable time to WP:IAR. Jogurney (talk) 17:24, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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