Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simran Gurung

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The result was keep‎. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) GrabUp - Talk 05:31, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Simran Gurung

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The article Simran Gurung does not meet Wikipedia’s general notability guidelines (WP:GNG) due to a lack of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. Most of the cited references provide only brief mentions rather than in-depth coverage, failing to establish the subject’s notability per WP:SIGCOV. Additionally, several sources are either primary, affiliated with the subject, or routine announcements, which do not meet the standards of WP:INDEP and WP:RS. The article also relies on repetitive sources that do not add substantial new information. If the subject is primarily known for a single event, it may also fall under the concerns outlined in WP:ONEEVENT. Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 01:24, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: There is WP:SIGCOV here and here, both of which were already in the article, so I question whether sources were properly evaluated. It's enough to pass WP:GNG and WP:NSPORT with plenty of coverage as is usually the case for a senior-level player for a national football team. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:49, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The BLP is about a football player, who made her Senior India debut while still being a junior player... and received substantial coverage all over India including in vernacular press. The BLP easily passes notability guidelines and WP:GNG as one mainstream newspaper, Telegraph, a reliable, secondary source published a bylined indepth article on the subject. It also passes WP:INDEP. One more popular football website has a full article on her. Even if we ignore this, there are three other reliable sources where the BLP is the main topic. It passes WP:SIGCOV, which requires "coverage to be more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material." The sources are from Telegraph, Sportstar, Ukhrul Times (a reliable and reputed small paper in the region), Sikkim Express and North East Live channel. Her events coverage spread from 2022 to 2025, the nominator must have missed it. So it is not a WP:ONEEVENT. So I added more sources for her domestic events. I urge the nominator to check the sources once again and also to familiarise with notability guidelines. Posting in good faith. Davidindia (talk) 05:02, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Women, Football, and Sikkim. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:11, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per sources added by Davidindia in addition to ones identified by Dclemens1971. Canary757 (talk) 09:29, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per above. The article needs improvement (such as an infobox), not deletion. – RossEvans19 (talk) 14:05, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:39, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per sources above which show notability. Giant Snowman 18:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I would like to remove my initial arguments. Yes it’s indeed notable. I should have analysed the references in depth. @Davidindia Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 19:23, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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