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The result was speedy keep‎. Nominator has withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:50, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mambas Noirs FC (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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unsourced since 2016: two sentence stub about an unnotable football club. ltbdl (talk) 05:56, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Football and Africa. ltbdl (talk) 05:56, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Mambas Noirs have played at least three seasons in the Beninese top division from 2005-2011 and then again in 2017 before suffering a double relegation and disappearing, so it's frustrating this article wasn't sourced when it was created back in 2010 considering it's not the easiest to source these articles. Most importantly this search shows they were significantly covered when they were in the league in 2017 and this talks about a budding rivalry with Requins from 2010. I can't access [1] as it's about a player but may be of use. This doesn't look like GNG but at least tells us who their trainer was during their 2017 top flight season. I'm also finding sources frustratingly hard to search for because a site search of 24haubenin is difficult and brings up results that searching the site thru a web indexer does not, for instance this and this is not SIGCOV but demonstrate how they and several other clubs were kicked out after the season was abandoned in 2010. It's going to be a slog to source but I'm absolutely convinced a sourced stub is possible here. SportingFlyer T·C 11:36, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• As an aside, very very few of these sources came up using traditional search engines. So if you Google and just see database entries from sport score websites, you haven't gone far enough... SportingFlyer T·C 11:43, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  I've turned it into a neat little referenced stub. Can add more if needed. SportingFlyer T·C 13:13, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  oh, that's much better! i withdraw this nomination. ltbdl (talk) 02:30, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Also turns out they played in the CAF Champions League in 2005 under the name Donjo! So this is an absolute keep in my book. SportingFlyer T·C 13:25, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Top division club, clearly notable. Number 57 15:15, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep being a top level club that qualified for international competition and improved sourcing by SportingFlyer has improved article to meet notability guidelines. Demt1298 (talk) 18:56, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:11, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep passes GNG, and looks better after expansion.--Ortizesp (talk) 19:48, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Per above. Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 20:50, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.