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FC Cluj (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Doesn't look notable. Just a local club that existed, for only two years. Sources are all from a data repository, rather than from reliable secondary sources. Super Ψ Dro 18:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Football, Hungary, and Romania. Super Ψ Dro 18:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• question: so how many years does a club needs to exist to be able to exist as an article on Wikipedia? Where does the line gets drawn?

  As for reliable sources I can provide at least 2 more. I will introduce those sources time permitting. VJFlow2018 (talk) 19:05, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Being sourced to a mere database is the major concern. The sort of sources needed for an encyclopaedia article are things like Faje 2011 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFFaje2011 (help) — which is on-point, expert written by an erstwhile anthropologist at Babeș-Bolyai University, in-depth, prose, and full of analysis and history — and does not in fact mention any such football club as this. It demonstrates that the clubs that it does discuss are notable but dint of them having been noted, independently of themselves and by someone who checks facts and aims for accuracy. Uncle G (talk) 19:23, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Faje, Florin (2011). "Football Fandom in Cluj". In Kalb, Don; Halmai, Gábor (eds.). Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9780857452047.
  • The amount of time it existed for is not the primary issue but rather whether there are secondary sources discussing the topic (if there are many, such topics are called WP:NOTABLE). I pointed out the two years because it looks hard that such a football club could achieve much WP:COVERAGE by reliable sources, which would make the club notable. I could be wrong but the article does not currently reflect that. It is the burden of an article's writer to attempt to prove the topic's notability, and the use of general data repositories is not an indication of notability precisely because any data is included in them without criteria. Researchers writing secondary sources would only devote time for important topics. Super Ψ Dro 21:52, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:30, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 20:07, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 20:11, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Right now the article isn't sourced well enough to be kept, and I can't do a historical Romanian/Hungarian source search. I'd prefer if this could be saved, if VJFlow2018 has the ability to access more sources I'd be happy with a draftify. SportingFlyer T·C 07:21, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Luca Manolache (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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While his death is tragic, he himself fails notability. Played only one game at the top level of Romanian football, while coverage is only of his death and career statistics. 💥Casualty ^{• Hop along. •} 16:47, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports, Football, and Romania. 💥Casualty ^{• Hop along. •} 16:47, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would consider Liga II as national level as well, it is fully professional. From my POV he was considered a full fledged professional player starting with the 2023-2024 season. Americanu197 (talk) 16:57, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:11, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. He played one match for FCSB, the most popular Romanian team, in Liga I, the top-tier football league. The other games played in the second-tier which is also a professional one. Not a well-known young player, but still I think it is notable enough. Acid Mammoth (talk) 18:58, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. As tragic as his death is (at this age), there is absolutely no reason having an entry of him in this encyclopedia; in other words, a guy died untimely. Sadly, but that is it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:C70C:F200:28FB:1DF2:8D5F:1671 (talk) 04:56, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 09:16, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Note NFOOTY is obsolete and has been for some years, so passing/failing totally irrelevant. GiantSnowman 09:18, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GiantSnowman Fixed. I didn't know if an equivalent to that existed so I went with it. 💥Casualty ^{• Hop along. •} 16:43, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The only argument is WP:SPORTSCRIT. GiantSnowman 18:38, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep he has played in over 20 professional football games.GrimRob (talk) 12:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 18:55, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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