Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/New Zealand

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New Zealand[edit]

Keanu Apperley[edit]

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English-born Italian-New Zealander rugby player that fails WP:GNG. All I found were routine transactional announcements like 1, 2, and 3. JTtheOG (talk) 21:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Rugby union, Italy, England, and New Zealand. JTtheOG (talk) 21:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Boy Who Wasn't Scared to Dream[edit]

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Self published book, fails GNG and NBOOK. Nothing in article or found in BEFORE meets WP:SIRS addressing the subject directly and indepth. // Timothy :: talk 17:23, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature and Motorsport. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:08, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails GNG. SpacedFarmer (talk) 19:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: No book reviews that I can find, nothing on Common Sense Media. Likely TOOSOON. Give it a chance to be out in the market, might get some critical uptick. Oaktree b (talk) 19:54, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Can't find any reviews other than The Sapling cited in the article, and the only other source is an interview on RNZ which may not qualify as a secondary source. Doesn't meet notability thresholds at this stage. Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:47, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nelson Airways[edit]

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While airlines are generally notable, I'm not sure that the assumption holds for virtual airlines -- particularly with such thin sourcing. Avgeekamfot (talk) 09:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Donald Rutledge[edit]

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Not notable. I have been unable to find enough references. TheSwamphen (talk) 10:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete fails WP:GNG. Mztourist (talk) 03:19, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Medtral[edit]

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Non-notable company for medical tourism. Discussed at Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board that it was set up by an SPA for promotional reasons. First AfD in 2009 closed as no consensus. Schwede 66 20:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Travel and tourism and Medicine. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 22:20, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, promotion for an apparently defunct company. The website listed in the article (www.medtral.com) is dead, and a search for Medtral on www.mercyascot.co.nz returns nothing. I was the nominator for the first AfD for this article.-Gadfium (talk) 23:17, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Clearly promotional. Citations establish existence not notability. Appears to fail SIGCOV. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 23:34, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete SPA creation. A search on business.govt.nz indicates that Medtral Limited has been removed from the register and is thus defunct. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 22:04, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Lack of a functioning website strongly supports deletion as the article appears promotional and lacks notability. Waqar💬 17:24, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TV2 Stars[edit]

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Non-notable. There doesn't really appear to be anything to be said about this subject. toweli (talk) 12:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, Television, and New Zealand. toweli (talk) 12:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unreferenced article that does not demonstrate any notability. The "I got 2 babe" network ID promo receives mostly trivial mentions in one or two independent sources of varying reliability I found on Google. The group is not specifically named in any of these. There is nothing of substance here to warrant a standalone article. The network promo itself could probably be covered by a single sentence in the articles for TVNZ or the "Other media" section of I Got You Babe. Dfadden (talk) 14:05, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Network promo campaigns are incredibly unnotable and since this didn't even have the perfunctory charitable aim to get everyone together, the song isn't even notable. We've long killed mention of promo slogans and campaigns in network articles (for the most part the crufters who insist this is important have moved onto Fandom) and a mention on the song's article would be as equally pointless. Nate • (chatter) 19:17, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, fair enough. I'm not here to debate the notability of the promo, I just found several articles in independent sources that discussed it, as opposed to nothing at all about TV2 Stars. I'm firmly in favour of deleting this article. Dfadden (talk) 21:39, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Donald Maka[edit]

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I am unable to find sufficient in-depth coverage of the subject, a New Zealand rugby union player, to meet WP:GNG or WP:SPORTCRIT. It seems like he has been out of the sport for four years now. JTtheOG (talk) 20:27, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Career has never really kicked on, struggling to find sustained coverage of the subject to pass WP:GNG. If any of our NZ editors find anything more detailed, then ping me. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 09:10, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Josh Fusitua[edit]

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I am unable to find enough coverage of the subject, a New Zealand rugby union player, to meet WP:GNG or WP:SPORTCRIT. JTtheOG (talk) 23:45, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Think there's just about enough when sourcing snippets are combined, such as this, this, this among others. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 18:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- For future reference, a database profile and two primary sources do not come close to meeting GNG. JTtheOG (talk) 18:59, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per JTtheOG, can't see any thorough coverage of this person. David Palmer aka cloventt (talk) 02:14, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is a young player at the beginning of his career and he is playing regularly for the Blues now. There are already more sources available about this player than used for this stub and it is foreseeable that there will be more written about him in the future. Ruggalicious (talk) 23:26, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Ruggalicious: Which sources did you find? JTtheOG (talk) 03:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 01:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Categories / Templates / etc[edit]

NZ proposed deletions (WP:PROD)[edit]

Pekatahi (via WP:PROD on 5 February 2024)
Raes Junction (via WP:PROD on 4 February 2024)

Rather than discussing PROD-nominees here, it is better to contribute to the talk page for the article nominated for deletion. If you agree with the proposed deletion, you don't have to do anything or you may second the nomination. If you think the article merits keeping, then remove the {{prod}} template and make an effort to improve the article so that it clearly meets the notability and verifiability criteria.

A list of prodded articles with {{WikiProject New Zealand}} tags can be seen at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Article alerts#Alerts.