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Seita Murai (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:SPORTCRIT and WP:GNG. No achievements in sport. Source assessment:

  1. primary source
  2. very short, not in-depth, WP:ROUTINE
  3. primary source
  4. WP:ROUTINE, 50% quote (primary source).
  5. not really coverage, it's a list of transfers.
  6. database.
    Geschichte (talk) 10:41, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Australian Progressives (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No inherent notability, has little notice from independent sources. No electoral success and has been de-registered by the Australian Electoral Commission for 2 years Flat Out (talk) 23:24, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re.press (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Article does not meet WP:GNG, sources are comprised of 4 personal blogs, 2 subpages from the subjects website, and 1 post from a defunct small publishers community which contained the subject. No other reliable sources can be found on the subject, and searches only turn up books printed by the subject. CitrusHemlock 23:40, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rick Bevan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Non-notable RL player. Was unable to find any WP:SIGCOV at Trove, other than a few mentions of him being the father of his much more famous son. J Mo 101 (talk) 18:33, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Matty Macarthur (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No indication of meeting WP:SPORTCRIT or WP:GNG Daemonickangaroo2018 (talk) 16:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Strength Sports Australia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Doesn't seem to be any good third party sourcing for this - and it 's also a COI edit mess Golikom (talk) 12:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The page has been written from a bias point of view. I have tried to correct it by
1. Attempting to remove information that is not proven (eg: the statement that said that the structure of the board is unclear, and the qualification process is unclear).
2. Reworded statements made from the APU (eg the statement about us leaving the ipf)
3. Included details about what SSA has recently done, including Kettlebell events.
4. Made a statement regarding its stance on drugs.
5. Remove irrelevant information about the position of World Drug Free Powerlifting Federation and being Signatory (it is irrelevant).
6. Noted that we were the 3rd nation that has left the IPF in recent years. USAPL and Powerlifting Australia being the other 2.
7. Added Strength Sports Australia's first competitions (it is now SSA, so very relevant)
8. Our international competitions are now with WDFPF, as it is now an SSA page, IPF is not our international body.
9. Only include world records if they are held while under APU or SSA.
Those changes are reasonable, and no biased.
As this page is not going to be managed without releasing the issues among the sport as a whole, yes it should be closed. Gorani!007 (talk) 09:54, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Sophie Moleta (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Doesn't appear to meet WP:GNG. I found this article because Moleta redirects here and I wanted to determine whether it should be a disambiguation or if Moleta (kgosi) should be the main subject. Searching suggests this is a run-of-the-mill musician. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:51, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -- there are four sources fully cited in this article talking about her. They appear to be reliable, secondary, and independent sources; the two I've managed to access myself provide significant coverage and I assume the others do as well, particularly the news article in The West Australian with her name in it. That's three GNG-qualifying sources right there. Quoting, GNG is "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." -- just because the sources in the article were not linked does not mean they do not exist. Whether a person seems "run-of-the-mill" is irrelevant as long as they pass GNG; and if you read the news articles which were cited in the article at the time of the nomination she does have a somewhat interesting style.
I would make this a strong keep if I could track down the URL for the West Australian article, but I can't currently. Probably searches are failing because the news source does not keep archives from 2001. Mrfoogles (talk) 07:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Relatedly I think it will likely need to be a disambiguation page -- the kgosi while arguably more historically significant is likely much more obscure. Mrfoogles (talk) 07:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Ref 2 is significant (partially interview based but with more than sufficient additional coverage); ref 4 is the same author in the same source a couple of months later with a cut down para about a live appearance, so I don't give that particular weight. There's basically a paragraph of review included at De Morgen[2] (the article covers releases from multiple bands/muso )- it looks like this is the same as ref 3 since it's the only mention of her in the archives. Ref 2 (GTranslated) suggests that she has had more success in France than elsewhere, however she has hardly any appearances on French sites currently. The West Australian smells like an interview and/or a festival appearance (Kulcha was WA's multicultural arts body), but would need someone with access to the archive to check. I can't see any other reviews around for her albums including via sampling archive snapshots of her website. In the absence of additional reviews -- particularly for her other work -- I think that a case can be made that her album Dive weakly meets WP:NALBUM (the Liberation and De Morgen articles, plus two of its songs were in the soundtrack for Pretty Things (2001 film)), that her albums other than Dive are clearly non-notable, and that she does not meet WP:NMUSICIAN. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 05:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Anne Ross (Australian sculptor) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Talented but by in-house wiki standards sadly NN. sources are passing mention only. Have done a BEFORE but see only gallery listings. Don't suspect WP:BIO. Her work is very very impressive, but not sure a wiki bio is warranted just yet. Would be trilled to be proven wrong. Ceoil (talk) 14:17, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I see what you mean, that the works are more notable than the artist. Is it ethical to delete items from an article before nominating it for deletion? Doug butler (talk) 20:18, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete: Nothing for this artist found, no listing in the Getty ULAN [3]. The one source in the article isn't enough. Oaktree b (talk) 01:00, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I added example and citations for her public art. The citations show that these artworks exist, but not sure if the show notability--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:41, 25 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]
  • Comment This sculptor is represented in about 4 regional galleries and has public art commissions in about 14 city councils. She has been a finalist in at least three art awards. She has had solo as well as group exhibitions. Her work has been reviewed, not just passing mentions. She would be known in public art circles amongst people who commission public art and has some international recognition. As usual I don't think editors should check an Australian's notability by using only US sources or journal aggregators that are US or European-centric. I agree this artist is not nationally well-known, but I want to know what previous commenters are looking for in terms of notability. You have all seemed to use different sources or criteria, some of which may not be relevant. What do you want to see for her to pass your notability standard? LPascal (talk) 11:34, 25 November 2024 (UTC)LPascal[reply]
  • Comment- LPascal we are looking at WP:GNG and WP:ARTIST. You can see that there are specific guidelines for creative professionals, as there is a line between doing one's job well and being notable. you say 4 regional galleries and has public art commissions in about 14 city councils. She has been a finalist in at least three art awards. If you would provide RS for those claims I think it would help the article. Ross' work does not appear to: (a) become a significant monument, (b) been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) won significant critical attention, or (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:19, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment: I'm not wedded to keeping her article but I can possibly find references/reviews to her work in her artist's file in an art library next week. If these reviews/references show a body of work as per her CV would that get her over the line for WP:ARTIST.? You'd need to wait a week until I can get to her clippings file. LPascal (talk) 09:11, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment::Ross is a sculptor, so that needs to be taken into account...an expensive creative endeavour and in Australia very hard to sell to major collectors other than public institutions, so her number of public art commissions — seventeen 1992–2019 — is high in the small Australian market for sculpture. I'll check the reviews of her work in major newspapers as listed in her CV https://marsgallery.com.au/usr/library/documents/main/artists/79/anne-ross-cv-24.pdf at MARS gallery, a major commercial gallery in Melbourne. They date back to 1991 and significant Aust. art critics address (Nelson, Lynn, Lancashire, Makin etc.) her work ('(c) won significant critical attention'). McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award (x3) and Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibtion are major events ('(b) been a substantial part of a significant exhibition'). Maitland Regional Gallery, Jewish Museum of Australia,in which Ross is represented are notable galleries and inclusion in The City of Melbourne collection is likewise notable. I am not a fan of her work, but I feel after further checks that she meets the notability criteria. :Jamesmcardle (talk) 22:44, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Request According to Ms Ross's website, acquisition of her Bunyip by the American Natural History Museum was covered by the San Antonio Express-News, presumably in 2019. Does anyone have access to their archive? Doug butler (talk) 19:21, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Doug butler Looks like the online archives for San Antonio Express-News is available at the https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ at NewspaperARCHIVE.com. Keywords Bunyip and Ross doesn't bring up any articles. Double check please. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:00, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks WAU. Ms Ross, in her website, credits the San Antonio Express-News for the photo of the figure in a display case. Thanks for the link; I found no instance of "bunyip" in that newspaper between 2010 and 2020, but have no idea of how conclusive such a search is. Doug butler (talk) 20:26, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting upon request. But know that this discussion can be closed whenever a closer discerns a consensus here.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:40, 30 November 2024 (UTC)</pion[reply]

  • Pause nomination for at least a week. As mentioned above, research is being done on this. — Maile (talk) 02:58, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: I have checked the Anne Ross ephemera file in the art library. Ephemera files contain newspaper clippings, exhibition invitations, CVs, catalogues etc relating to the artist. The files are useful to confirm exhibitions, the accuracy of an artist's CV and to find press reviews in journals and newspapers that are difficult to find online. I found enough ephemera and newspaper clippings to confirm that her CV is accurate (artists' CVs usually are) and that she has featured in the arts pages of The Canberra Times, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald. She appears in the Scheding Index of Australian Arts & Artists, https://artresearch.com.au/results/?criteria=anne+ross and The NAVA Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists. Her public art commissions (outdoor sculptures) are in the collections of 13 individual state/local/government organisations (Meets criteria (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.) Her "inside" art is in the collections of at least 14 galleries. She has been shortlisted and shown in two prestigious sculpture awards: McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, and The Woollahra Sculpture Prize. Because of her many public arts commissions and showings in sculpture exhibitions and awards, I think she also meets criteria 3. The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. ie her work is obviously well known in public art circles especially in regard to animal sculptures.LPascal (talk) 02:21, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Great work @LPascal. A convincing case to keep. Jamesmcardle (talk) 02:53, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× 10:20, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I'm intending to check hard copy of reviews in the State Library of Victoria artist files, but in the meantime have structured the article to include Anne Ross's recognition and standing and also inserted more references and links to exhibitions and public works. The volume and importance Ross's work and reviews of it by significant critics as Nelson, Lynn, Lancashire, Makin etc. cover the notability requirements on all counts. Jamesmcardle (talk) 12:04, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]



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New Zealand

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Jadin Kingi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I am unable to find enough in-depth coverage of this rugby player to meet WP:GNG or WP:SPORTCRIT. All I found was four sentences of coverage here and this routine transfer announcement which looks very much like a blog. JTtheOG (talk) 22:25, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Source assessment table: prepared by User:JTtheOG
Source Independent? Reliable? Significant coverage? Count source toward GNG?
https://www.nprugby.it/una-seconda-linea-neozelandese-per-il-mogliano/ No Identical reproduction of this press release. Yes No Routine transactional announcement. No
https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2019/03/28/kingi-getting-ahead-by-going-backwards Yes Yes No Fails WP:YOUNGATH as routine coverage of his amateur athletic career. No
https://www.steelers.co.nz/community-rugby/latest/news/jadin-kingi-signed-to-pic-steelers-academy.html No Press release from his club. Yes No Routine transactional announcement. No
https://www.lapiazzaweb.it/news/sport/342279/il-grande-ritorno-di-jadin-kingi-in-biancoblu-coach-caputo-un-elemento-che-fa-la-differenza.html Yes Yes No Four sentences of independent coverage of the subject. No
https://notizieplus.it/jadin-kingi-al-mogliano-rugby/ No Nearly identical reproduction of this press release. ? No Routine transactional announcement. No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

Aside from these, all four refs currently present in the article are from non-independent sources. JTtheOG (talk) 03:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pendragon Press (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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List of unnotable book publishing companies. SolxrgashiUnited (talk) 17:41, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I agree this isn't a notable publisher and this article has no SIGCOV. Alexeyevitch(talk) 14:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fiordland Trails Trust (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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WP:SIGCOV. Alexeyevitch(talk) 06:29, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sophie Moleta (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Doesn't appear to meet WP:GNG. I found this article because Moleta redirects here and I wanted to determine whether it should be a disambiguation or if Moleta (kgosi) should be the main subject. Searching suggests this is a run-of-the-mill musician. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:51, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -- there are four sources fully cited in this article talking about her. They appear to be reliable, secondary, and independent sources; the two I've managed to access myself provide significant coverage and I assume the others do as well, particularly the news article in The West Australian with her name in it. That's three GNG-qualifying sources right there. Quoting, GNG is "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." -- just because the sources in the article were not linked does not mean they do not exist. Whether a person seems "run-of-the-mill" is irrelevant as long as they pass GNG; and if you read the news articles which were cited in the article at the time of the nomination she does have a somewhat interesting style.
I would make this a strong keep if I could track down the URL for the West Australian article, but I can't currently. Probably searches are failing because the news source does not keep archives from 2001. Mrfoogles (talk) 07:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Relatedly I think it will likely need to be a disambiguation page -- the kgosi while arguably more historically significant is likely much more obscure. Mrfoogles (talk) 07:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Ref 2 is significant (partially interview based but with more than sufficient additional coverage); ref 4 is the same author in the same source a couple of months later with a cut down para about a live appearance, so I don't give that particular weight. There's basically a paragraph of review included at De Morgen[4] (the article covers releases from multiple bands/muso )- it looks like this is the same as ref 3 since it's the only mention of her in the archives. Ref 2 (GTranslated) suggests that she has had more success in France than elsewhere, however she has hardly any appearances on French sites currently. The West Australian smells like an interview and/or a festival appearance (Kulcha was WA's multicultural arts body), but would need someone with access to the archive to check. I can't see any other reviews around for her albums including via sampling archive snapshots of her website. In the absence of additional reviews -- particularly for her other work -- I think that a case can be made that her album Dive weakly meets WP:NALBUM (the Liberation and De Morgen articles, plus two of its songs were in the soundtrack for Pretty Things (2001 film)), that her albums other than Dive are clearly non-notable, and that she does not meet WP:NMUSICIAN. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 05:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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NZ proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

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Elsewhere in Oceania

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List of Oceanian under-23 bests in athletics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This isn't an official list kept by Oceania Athletics Association and appears to be full of original research. Plus, the tables are incomplete. Besides the senior ranks, World Athletics or continental governing bodies typically only keep an official U20 World Record list ("junior") and a U18 World Best list ("youth"). Having record lists that are incomplete and not official seems like a poor choice. I am not nominating the Europe U23 list and South America U23 list for deletion as these have official records kept by European Athletics Association and Atletismo Sudamericano. It's definitely a lot of work to put lists like this together, so I suggest that whoever made this article save a copy in the event this and the articles below get deleted. KnowledgeIsPower9281 (talk) 16:10, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reasons as above (i.e: unofficial list, original research, incomplete tables):

List of Asian under-23 bests in athletics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
List of African under-23 records in athletics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
List of North, Central American and Caribbean under-23 records in athletics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
List of world under-23 bests in athletics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

KnowledgeIsPower9281 (talk) 16:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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