Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdou Manzo

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) NotAGenious (talk) 18:50, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abdou Manzo

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No SIGCOV found. ~~The now-removed claim that he was the record holder in the marathon is disproven at this website, saying Mohammed Abbas defeated him by nearly 10 minutes.~~ InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 04:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Olympics, and Africa. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 04:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment You should retract the part about records faster than the wind, because your source is clearly named athleticsNIGERIA.org, whereas the subject is from NIGER. Two different countries... Geschichte (talk) 20:41, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Yup I deserve a trout for that. struck InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 20:43, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as a national record holder and Olympic flagbearer for Niger. I think that enduring coverage exists, and as evidence I found a 2009 article describing Manzo as a (translated) "glory of Nigerien athletics" showing he is still active in some form, which I added to the article. --Habst (talk) 15:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep. Our access to sources from Niger is extremely poor; many of their sources from today remain offline, let alone newspaper articles from the 1980s and 1990s (when Manzo would most likely be covered). There's about 15 newspapers currently operating in Niger, I don't think we really have access to coverage from the 1990s in any of them. The fact that Habst found an article mentioning him as a "glory of Nigerien athletics" is very significant considering this. Also pretty notable I think that he was able to make it to three straight Olympics – including when he was 37 – as a runner! There has to be offline coverage of him based on what has been found. It also seems that he may have played for the Niger national football team? BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:49, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 13:56, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep. Per BeanieFan11's reasoning. It's hard to believe someone who competed at 3 modern Olympics isn't really notable. I know they don't get a presumption anymore but still. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 14:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Per Habst and BeanieFan11 above. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:37, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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