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

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Non-notable university. Most of the sources are from the same university's website. ☮️Counter-Strike:Mention 269🕉️^{(🗨️ ● ✉️ ● 📔)} 06:17, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wow, surprised to see this deletion. This is a public institution with over 13,000 students, 124 academic programs, and 12 graduation ceremonies. It is also accredited by the Ministry of Education (Ethiopia). The article reflects a solid organization with verifiable and encyclopedic coverage. Wieditor25 (talk) 19:59, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Declined prod. There are 2 third party sources. This one when translated is a small 1 line mention and not SIGCOV. This one is rather routine coverage. An unremarkable career that doesn't meet WP:SPORTSCRIT or WP:NATH. LibStar (talk) 01:36, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Olympics, Sport of athletics, and Ethiopia. LibStar (talk) 01:36, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: the sources would seem to militate against him having an "unremarkable career" (parenthetically, a bafflingly and unnecessarily rude remark to make about a BLP subject). jp×g🗯️ 03:33, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Where is the SIGCOV of this individual? LibStar (talk) 09:51, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  The SIGCOV would be in Ethiopian newspapers from the 1980s. Given that American media which did not even attend the 1980 Olympics considered Kuma worthy of prose-based coverage, significant coverage is certain to exist in those sources as soon as they're digitized, and notability is always determined by the existence of sources, not their presence in the article.

  There are actually five third-party sources linked in the article, not two, I am not sure what the source of that number is. The Salt Lake Tribune source does not meet the definition of WP:ROUTINE because it wasn't planned – how could you plan something like that? – nor run-of-the-mill, as the Summer Olympics only happen every four years and Olympic injuries are usually noteworthy. --Habst (talk) 13:24, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Ethiopia at the 1980 Summer Olympics - As WP:ATD. Svartner (talk) 11:12, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Subject does not appear to meet the WP:SPORTSCRIT due to a lack of WP:SIGCOV. The article currently only has references to databases, and all I could find in secondary sources was a namedrop at [[1]]. Let'srun (talk) 00:41, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment; summoning @Habst, as this is their area of expertise. I can't immediately find any english coverage of this person, but then again the sources are most likely to be smaller Ethiopian newspapers from the 50s and 60s written in amharic. I will keep looking for sources. AnonymousScholar49 (talk) 03:32, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  We don't know that "smaller Ethiopian newspapers" covered cyclists. Not all sports get much coverage in every country at every time. Anyway, Wikipedia's current rules state that the coverage must be uncovered before creating articles, not after. Geschichte (talk) 14:49, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @AnonymousScholar49, I appreciate being called an expert, but I am just another editor like you. The subject's Amharic name is ንጉሴ መንግስቱ, and it is used in a few articles ([2] [3] (use webarchive)), but mostly mentions that I can find. He might be covered in Jack Trickey's interview considering he was one of two cyclists to run into him, but we can't say that for sure as it's paywalled.

  And for the record, not to be semantic but SPORTCRIT only mandates that SIGCOV must exist in articles, not from their inception; that rule was not in place at the time this article was created in 2014. --Habst (talk) 13:07, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 14:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hybrid Designs PLC (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable company. Coverage is routine and WP:ROTM. Fails WP:NCORP. Cabrils (talk) 00:03, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete. Company brochure. Yesterday, all my dreams... (talk) 22:45, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Undisclosed conflict of interest...fails WP:NORG primary sourced advertising. Theroadislong (talk) 16:25, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a public university, not a paid promotion. Which parts raised concerns about undisclosed paid editing or conflict of interest? But I can go ahead and blank it out, if it makes you happy. Wieditor25 (talk) 16:51, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Being a public university, and paid promotion, are not mutually exclusive. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:52, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Wieditor25 no need to blank it nor should you. This discussion will determine if the article meets Wikipedia's notability criteria. Other editors will hopefully opine. S0091 (talk) 18:26, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Week Keep - I'm shocked to see the comments about COI, but there is no proof that the editor works at the university. Then again, most of the sources are from the university's website, so it could fall under a WP:SOAPBOX violation. JTZegers (talk) 17:45, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Indeed, most of the sources are from the university itself (connexion to subject). The rest are two counts of routine coverage, a dead source, and a PDF labeled as a "self-evaluation". Nothing here works. Also, Wieditor25 has attempted to canvass this conversation on the Teahouse. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 18:08, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Week Keep this needs some cleanup but this is a public university with some independent coverage from the Ethiopian News Agency. --hroest 19:55, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Said coverage is routine and is of little value in determining notability. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 20:45, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Undisclosed paid editing/conflict of interest fails WP:NORG. Theroadislong (talk) 15:51, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This is a public university, not a paid promotion. Which parts raised concerns about undisclosed paid editing or conflict of interest? But I can go ahead and blank it out, if it makes you happy. Wieditor25 (talk) 16:50, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Being a public university, and paid promotion, are not mutually exclusive. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:51, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - A government source, the university's own website (which throws up a secure connexion failed error) and some routine coverage. Nothing here is any good. Wieditor25 has attemped to canvass this discussion on the Teahouse. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 18:11, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

weak keep public Universities are generally presumed notable, even though here there isnt a ton of secondary coverage we can at least establish that this University exists and trains students. The article is in reasonable shape and has sources, we can improve COI issues but I simply dont see a reason to delete this. --hroest 14:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No they aren't. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 15:44, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammed Ahmed (businessman) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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the sources are dependent and only one has something similar to deep coverage, but the sources itself is not reliable and independent (this one Ethiopian birthday) other are WP:Trades and nothing similar to significant coverage OatPancake (talk) 13:54, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep Individual is known for the success of Africa's largest airlines. According to Fana Broadcasting Corporate "The late Captain Mohammed Ahmed, a pioneering force in the aviation industry and a cherished leader of Ethiopian Airlines" [4]Magherbin (talk) 05:55, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability standards, lacking significant coverage from independent, reliable sources. If it relies on promotional content or self-published material, it would also fail to meet the site's neutrality and sourcing guidelines.--Hka-34 Jyli (talk) 08:05, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Hka-34 Jyli: So does it contain promotional content or not? MarioGom (talk) 09:28, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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• DeleteI cannot find multiple reliable significant coverage to meet ANY BIO. One so-so source is not enough. --NiftyyyNofteeeee (talk) 09:10, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 17:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Appears to be quite clearly notable based on the sources already cited in the article. Even putting the others aside, the fact that an African CEO received coverage in the Washington Post and the New York Times during the 1980s strongly indicates notability (both are about the company, but in my view also contain SIGCOV of Ahmed's role in its rise as CEO). This BBC report doesn't provide SIGCOV of him, but it does refer to him as the renowned Ethiopian CEO (known for challenging the Dergue officials in defence of the independence of the management of the airline), which also strongly suggests to me that he is notable. He also has mentions in several books that I can't fully access, including these ones. And there's this obituary written by a university faculty member and this one by a staff writer. I think it's more than enough to pass WP:GNG. MCE89 (talk) 16:03, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep – Per sources presented by MCE89. Svartner (talk) 16:38, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Broad coverage of his time as CEO of Ethiopian Airlines in many reliable sources, and also multiple with significant coverage per MCE89. jocelyn's dance ^talk 19:06, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per MCE89 Andre🚐 03:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This person seems to have sufficient sources from RSes such as from the New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. He definitely seems to have done notable things worthy of inclusion on here. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 14:39, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]