Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Egypt national ice hockey team

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The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 04:22, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Egypt national ice hockey team

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There is no Egyptian ice hockey association, or national body. This article is about club teams that are not notable, from Egypt. 18abruce (talk) 01:13, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. AaronWikia (talk) 02:22, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ice hockey-related deletion discussions. AaronWikia (talk) 02:22, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. AaronWikia (talk) 02:22, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. AaronWikia (talk) 02:22, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ice hockey in Egypt and User talk:AaronWikia#Speedy deletion nomination of Ice hockey in Egypt. The creation of the Egypt national ice hockey team article appears to be an attempt to get around those deletions. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:49, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - The article does appear to be about a national team, not club teams. It mentions the players' clubs, but that's pretty standard for this kind of article. If this really isn't an official sanctioned team, I guess the article should be deleted, but I'd like to do more research before !voting. Smartyllama (talk) 17:31, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- The only links available send you to the two club teams from Egypt, there is no national sporting body. And the National Teams of Ice Hockey website (which has details on just about every obscure national team) states: "Ice Hockey in Egypt is not a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation nor does it have a federation or an association, but a group of players form a national team and in 2017 Egypt played 2 exhibition games in Saint-Laurent, Quebec against Lebanon & Morocco. Egyptian players are trying to grow the game in their country." By that logic nearly every caribbean nation would have a national team by virtue of participating in the "Canadian National Pond Hockey tournament" in New Brunswick, because they played a hockey game with other guys from their country. You don't have to be recognized by the IIHF, but they should be recognized by their own country.18abruce (talk) 18:56, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's also unclear to me whether National Teams of Ice Hockey should be considered a reliable source. It looks rather like a personal website. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:12, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And I should point out that the website for egyptian hockey has this helpful statement at the top, "Please note Egypt does not currently have an Official Ice Hockey Federation or National Ice Hockey Team." And this is used as a source for a page for the Egyptian National Ice Hockey Team.18abruce (talk) 20:43, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as failing the notability requirements. Egypt is not listed as an IIHF member, and the team doesn't meet WP:GNG. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:39, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete no reliable references, and the referencing that does exist suggests that this isn't part of any international organizations, it's simply a team of people from Egypt. power~enwiki (π, ν) 06:08, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:GNG without reliable sources. Flibirigit (talk) 18:47, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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