Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stade Brikama

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. Whilst the argument put forward by Warofdreams (talk • contribs • logs) was interesting, the debate for a "Delete" closure was, unfortunately, considerably stronger. Anthøny 22:56, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stade Brikama

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the unreferenced article is probably a fake, search a stadium by google earth..... you see nothing... (only the footballfield of the Gambia High School)

this picture shows the stadium of Bakau... the "national station" call Independence Stadium (Bakau) Atamari 15:23, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete non-notable building. Jonathan letters to the editor—my work 16:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as hoax. Google shows no hits whatsoever for Brikami+Gambia, the picture was of somewhere else, and an English colonised/speaking country is not likely to have a stadium called "Stade" anything. Grutness...wha? 00:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Uhh. Brikama + Gambia has lots of hits. No !vote. Grutness...wha? 00:24, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

    note Brikama ist the second largest city of this country, it's normaly you can find many google hits. But you will find no reliable source in literature (de:Wikipedia:Bibliothek/Portal Gambia) or web that exist a nationalstadium in Banjul, or otherwise in the country with the name describes "Stade Brikama". Search "Gambia + stadium" you can see only independence stadium in Bakau. --Atamari 00:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete My searching through ghits threw up the fact that there is only one stadium as such in Gambia and that is the "Independence Stadium", the national stadium. I did wonder if the "Stade Brikama" was an early or alternative name for this but nothing I have read supports that. In fact, "Stade Brikama" seems to appears only on wikis and mirrors and the like, and it seems to me that possibly an error has been made in one place and this has multiplied across the 'net like rabbits! I will go with Atamari and !vote delete as I find no reliable sources to verify that a stadium with the name "Stade Brikama" exists. I thank Atamari for pointing this out here; I saw while researching that he discussed this on de.wikipedia a couple of months ago. --Malcolmxl5 06:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep (but rename to Box Bar Stadium - currently a redirect to Banjul). A search for Brikama stadium returns lots of hits. This local news story states that it is the "Brikama Mini Stadium better known as Box Bar", while the article synopsis here states that "The GFA first and second divisions leagues are in progress at the Independence Stadium and Brikama mini-stadium respectively". So it's a pretty signficant (though small) stadium, and appears to be the Gambia's second stadium. There is even some information about it at de:Box Bar Stadium. Warofdreams talk 19:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

  but the information of 15.000 people ist wrong for this mudfield. --Atamari 21:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

  I found a source which suggested 7,000 - but if it's largely unseated, it's probably pretty variable. You've got a point that basically there's almost nothing correct in the existing article, so it wouldn't be a great loss to delete it and start again, but we may as well adapt what we have. Warofdreams talk 18:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.