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Bounkou Camara

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Declined prod. Added sources are not indepth or databases/results listings: [1], [2]. This link doesn't appear to refer to the person. Fails WP:SPORTSCRIT, WP:NOLY and WP:NATH. LibStar (talk) 23:14, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Olympics, Sport of athletics, and Africa. LibStar (talk) 23:14, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I tried both versions/spellings of the name on .mr websites, nothing turns up. There just isn't enough sourcing for this person. Oaktree b (talk) 00:05, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. She received a decent amount of coverage (including in other countries such as Lebanon), including arguably sigcov here (~130 words devoted to her), for being the first woman ever to become the trainer for a men's football team in Mauritanian history, something described as "unprecedented" in Mauritanian sport. That is sufficient for SPORTCRIT. Furthermore, she was among the only athletes from her country at many of the events she participated in, including the Olympics (where she was one of two). Mauritanian archives are extremely poor (and many of the papers are never put online), and barely anything there from 2008 is accessible to us. However, given her status as one of the only Mauritanian female athletes to compete at top-tier competitions, as well as her historic achievements in football, (i) it does not seem reasonable to conclude that there would not be further coverage in the nation's press, and (ii) in the end, I don't feel as if deleting a historic Mauritanian sportswoman such as her improves the encyclopedia. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:37, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: per BeanieFan11, I added her name in Arabic which should helping with finding more sources. FuzzyMagma (talk) 20:09, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per sourcing found by BeanieFan11, which I would consider SIGCOV to fulfill SPORTCRIT. --Habst (talk) 17:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The provided articles are all lightly reworked versions of the same press release from her club, which is helpfully in a screenshot in the links. Plainly non-independent coverage would not be acceptable for any other subject, why should it be used here? JoelleJay (talk) 17:01, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- If the original press release is rewritten by independent media outlets that consider her accomplishment significant enough to cover themselves, why would that be non-independent? BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:18, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with using a much higher standard for sports biographies than other articles, but even with that higher standard this coverage is plainly independent. Much like with interviews, if an independent news platform decides to publish a story, that can of course be independent even if the original source for the story is a press release. --Habst (talk) 17:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]