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1956 in Belgian television

1956 in Belgian television (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Almost no content, not notable, cites no sources. Renerpho (talk) 14:35, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Procedural Keep Too many articles, I suggest renominate them and seperate them by country (or in case of the belgian one, probably by 10 years). I don't want to even close this article as XFDCloser will bugged with this many articles listed. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 10:14, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Miminity and Reywas92: Alright -- how do I do this? I only find explanations for how to bundle AfD's (and suggestions to do so for similar topics, which is why I did so here), but not how to split them. Renerpho (talk) 15:30, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Create a new AFD for 1956 in Estonian television, etc., then put an updated tag on each of the articles pointing to that page. Same procedure, it's not actually a split. Reywas92Talk 15:40, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Renerpho And I am begging you not to nominate various years at the same time, please. I or other users can improve them but only with time. Please rather consider Draftifying them boldly or improving them little by little. They CAN be improved. The only year I checked (for Belgium) WAS (very) notable. And, unless I am mistaken, you cannot possibly have performed a reasonably thorough BEFORE for all those years. -Mushy Yank. 20:20, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: 1) for navigational reasons; part of a whole; deleting this would be disruptive and confusing (inviting to recreate 1974 for example) 2) this year is, on top of that, particularly notable in Belgian television!!! See page. Has a BEFORE been performed? -Mushy Yank. 20:06, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The comment above is about 1982 in Belgian television, which I just finished improving and realised it was an hyper-bundled nom after having !voted via the script.. Doing the same for all these innumerous pages is simply IMPOSSIBLE and not reasonably expectable of willing users. Very STRONG PROCEDURAL KEEP bordering speedy. This is absolutely not manageable. -Mushy Yank. 20:09, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Estonia, Norway, and Sweden. -Mushy Yank. 20:23, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Michel Heydens

Michel Heydens (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Does not appear to meet the criteria of NMOTORSPORT. Also, additional information did not appear readily on a Google Search Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 01:47, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Raphaël van Praag

Raphaël van Praag (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No indication of notability for this football referee. Meanwhile, none of the sources in the article seem to provide WP:SIGCOV. JTtheOG (talk) 02:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak Keep Article for a very old historic referee, possible WP:OFFLINESOURCES. There is clearly some coverage there. Maybe more in newspaper archives, so I am employing a weak version of WP:BASIC. Govvy (talk) 08:25, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 19:11, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 19:16, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - Per Govvy. – RossEvans19 (talk) 16:37, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per WP:BASIC #1. Nom and the sole deletion supporter claim that there is no indication of his notability. This assertion does not hold water. A brief article in the Graafschapbode provides both direct and indirect indications of his importance. The article explicitly states in the title and body that Van Praag was a well-known referee, listing several important matches he officiated. Furthermore, the fact that a regional newspaper in the more remote Eastern Netherlands chose to report on the death of this Jewish referee from Amsterdam, who had moved to Antwerp, Belgium, underscores his national and international significance.
Nom also claims that the sources lack SIGCOV. While there is some validity to this point, it should be noted that the article was pieced together from many sources that collectively provide sufficient coverage. Additionally, when Van Praag began his refereeing career, football did not hold the same prominence it does today, meaning that time has enhanced the notability of this international referee. Even by the end of his life, his death was already reported far and wide, as the same article was also carried by the regional newspapers Gooi- en Eemlander and Haagsche Courant and by the national Volkskrant.[3] Given that Van Praag passed away in 1934, there are absolutely no concerns regarding BLP.
Fair disclosure: Raphaël van Praag was my sixth cousin, several generations removed. gidonb (talk) 03:58, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Many more Dutch newspapers reported on Van Praag's death, often using even stronger terms to describe the fame of the Belgian football referee and official.[4] Belgium does have a press archive; however, access is more restricted. I agree with Govvy that it is likely there are many more sources, while the half-full glass should not be overlooked either. gidonb (talk) 04:41, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have also added the 2022 Het Laatste Nieuws article on the 100th anniversary of Beerschot taking the national title, which covers the bust up between Van Praag and Tuur Van Menen, which resulted in Van Menen being ejected from the team despite his scoring the winning goal (and assisting the first one). Personally I always prefer if there is at least one source can describe the subject DOING something instead of just summarising their standard CV and this anecdote falls into that category – it's the type of story one would expect from a referee (and it had an impact afterwards on both the club and the athlete's career). Cielquiparle (talk) 06:46, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, thank you so much! HLN is the most-read newspaper in Belgium. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to look behind the paywall. gidonb (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 09:08, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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