- Danny Abbadi (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (restore|cache|AfD)
A lot of the comments on the AFD were of the "just not notable" or "couldn't find any sources type". Regardless, I dug up a lot of stuff that proves notability and verifiability:
- A full biography in the Orlando Sentinel (Orlando fighter finds contest is the ultimate, credited to Hal Boedeker and published April 6, 2006)
- Meets the biographical notability guidelines for athletes, having competed in midcards and undercards for the UFC, which is just below the highest level of professional mixed martial arts. He's also been a contestant on the TV show The Ultimate Fighter, which is by far the highest level of amateur competition in the sport.
- Verifiability shouldn't be a problem, with his matches being extensively reported on in the LA Times (Hughes Claims Victory After a Slow Start and Ultimate fighters ready to stage a rematch of their 2004 bout by Dan Arritt), the Las Vegas Review-Journal (Hughes gets revenge against Penn to retain UFC crown by Kevin Iole), the Orange County Register (Hughes survives, pummels Penn and UFC 63 preview by Carlos Arias), and the Calgary Sun (Starnes gets back up with a win over Abbadi, by Jose Rodriguez). east.718 at 17:19, April 30, 2008
- Endorse deletion until reliable sources are provided. East, if you can show us links, I would probably change my mind, but I did a diligent search through pages of Google hits last time and could only find his name mentioned in reliable sources, nothing to write a bio from. Corvus cornixtalk 18:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- Ah, the standard response to the Factiva defense. ;-) Links for print sources are merely a convenience and their absence should not exclude the citing of them. You can probably Google the titles of the articles to determine that they actually exist; if that's not good enough I can email you the full text to a couple of them. east.718 at 20:12, April 30, 2008
- I Googled for reliable sources and found none. I resent your claim that I was apparently too lazy to look. BTW, do those articles actually say anything about him other than that he fought those fights? None of the articles I could find said anything more. Corvus cornixtalk 22:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- I just went to the Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Orange Country Register and Calgary Sun websites (the Calgary Sun defaults to canoe.ca) and found one reference to Danny Abbadi. The OC Register had this:
- Non-televised undercard: Lightweight Roger Huerta (14-1-1) vs. Jason Dent (12-6); heavyweight Mario Neto (9-3) vs. Eddie Sanchez (7-0); lightweight Danny Abbadi (2-2) vs. Jorge Gurgel (12-1); and lightweight David Lee (5-1) vs. Tyson Griffin (7-0).. That's the sum of all information the four papers contain. Corvus cornixtalk 22:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- I apologize deeply if you found any offensiveness in my comments, I didn't mean them like that. I've uploaded the Orlando Sentinel piece which I'll build most of the article on here. Here's a relevant snippet for the purposes of verifying other bits of data from the OC Register piece: "Abbadi competed at 185 pounds when he was on TUF 3, but he has dropped down to the 155-pound division where he hopes to take advantage of his Muay Thai skills." There's also a bit more information available on an unrelated MMA Weekly article. I can get match descriptions etc. from the usual sources such as Sherdog or those print pieces which I mentioned earlier. east.718 at 23:25, April 30, 2008
- Overturn based on sources being provided above. This guy is clearly notable and meets all relevant guidelines for inclusion. Was a star of The Ultimate Fighter and has faught in the UFC, that alone is enough notability for a Wikipedia page per WP:ATHLETE. Extremely limited participation in the AfD, I'd imagine most people familiar with MMA know who this guy is, and would have been snowball kept had WP:MMA been notified. VegaDark (talk) 05:43, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- The AFD outcome was correct, but permit recreation based on sources now available. I'm sure east718 is well aware of BLP anyway. Stifle (talk) 08:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Permit Recreation Sources don't have to be online and I trust East718. Spartaz Humbug! 09:18, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- In light of the new offline references and concerns that related wiki projects have not been duly informed of the delete discussion, (also considering that improving an existing article is easier than creating a new one from scratch), closing admin is willing to suggest that the AfD be overturned and relisted, so as to allow more proper discussion that might result in reversing the original verdict. --PeaceNT (talk) 13:56, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just a quick comment since I support allowing recreation but I personally object to the idea that a wikiproject needs to be notified before an AFD can be considered valid. That's not only instruction creep but putting the views of one group of editors over that of the general community (well the part of it that bothers to watch AFD anyway). Spartaz Humbug! 16:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Overturn. Plenty of sources provided by east. Delete !voters should have performed due diligence in their searching before submitting their !votes. Celarnor Talk to me 19:21, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- To be honest, it's the responsibility of those wanting content included to come up with sources for them, not of those wanting content removed to prove their nonexistence (which is impossible anyway). Stifle (talk) 20:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Did you not read what I wrote above? I did tons of due diligence, and still have not found any reliable sources that anybody can write a bio from. The best that could be done would be a list of his fights, period. Corvus cornixtalk 21:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Userfy for recreation. If there's sources, that's great, but I perfer "Here's a citation" to "Trust me, it's there, and here's a copy of it I uploaded, now go do a search yourself to prove it exists". It's the author's responsibility to source the article properly. If the sources are there, making a userfied version good enough for inclusion should be easy. --UsaSatsui (talk) 21:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Overturn we are still accepting paper sources here at this place, right? :D I suggest that the author profusely documents every appeareance on paper sources, for verifiability purposes, explaining what was exactly said on each source, and appeasing claims of lack of WP:GOOGLEHITS (sorry, corvus, but there is still important stuff that does not appear on google) --Enric Naval (talk) 17:14, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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- When did I ever say anything to the contrary? Corvus cornixtalk 17:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- Ah, I apologize if I misinterpreted your comments. I didn't make myself clear I mean that there are many news articles that are never uploaded to the internet, or they get taken out of newspaper websites after a few days. So you can have someone who is notable by mentions in paper sources, but is not notable by looking only at google hits because only a few non-notable mentions appear there. East718 says that the paper sources assert notability, and the fact that google gives nothing can be misleading. I didn't want to make any comment on your ideas --Enric Naval (talk) 18:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think the problem is that the sources are offline (in fact, most newspaper articles are online nowadays). It's that all that has been given is descriptions on how to find them. "Find them yourself" and "trust me" don't cut it. --UsaSatsui (talk) 20:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- Overturn. PeaceNT closed that AFD correctly, but new sources have come to light after the AFD. He appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 3, fought in UFC 63[1] (not a Fight Night as is typical for TUF contestants), and has been covered by the Orlando Sentinel. And I think the Calgary Sun ref is pretty good as well. He's been covered in MMAWeekly[2]. I would think UFC.com[3] would count as an acceptable source as well. He's notable per WP:ATHLETE, having competed in a high-level, fully professional league. --Pixelface (talk) 15:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
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