Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fish market (Nouakchott)

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The result was keep‎. Owen× ☎ 08:00, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fish market (Nouakchott)[edit]

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The Nouakchott fish market, though often highlighted in travel guides covering the city, doesn't possess the sufficient secondary coverage, distinctive traits, or historical importance required for a Wikipedia article. The potential for substantial expansion beyond a rudimentary description is minimal. Mooonswimmer 04:25, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink, Shopping malls, Travel and tourism, and Africa. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:31, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. Hudson, Peter (1990). "The fish market". Travels in Mauritania. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1-85227-127-5. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  Chapter 5 of the book begins on page 57 and is called "The fish market". The Google Snippet view of the book notes: "The fish market. I had been in the habit now and again of going to the fish market on the beach outside Nouakchott. I would take one of the shared taxis out there, small green Renaults seemingly held together more by the determination of their drivers than by anything else. ... Immediately a fierce wind would hit the side of the taxi, veering it across the road to just miss a pick-up truck returning from the fish market with twenty-five people standing hugged together in the back, which fortunately had been on a westward lurch itself at the same moment, and accordingly we did not crash. ..."
2. Learoussy, Hana Youssef; Tfeil, H.; Dartige, Ali Yahya; Aarab, Lotfi (2020). "Empirical analysis of halieutic products marketing system in Nouakchott". Journal of Applied Science and Environmental Studies. Vol. 1, no. 1. Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University. pp. 37–52. ISSN 2605-7565. Archived from the original on 2024-05-14. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  The article is also available here. The abstract notes: "This paper examines the marketing system for fish products at the Nouakchott fish market."
  The journal article notes: "The Nouakchott fish market is the largest market for halieutic products and one of the focal points for fishermen landing on the west coast of the capital. ... The choice of the Nouakchott fish market as a study area has been adopted one by its geographical position which is located near the center of the capital, and other by, the seat of the majority and the largest factories of processing of fishing products (wholesalers). ... There is at market level an external facility consisting of bench dedicated to retailers and people responsible for scaling fish, and a building (headquarters of semi-wholesalers) consisting of storage rooms products in large enough quantity. In the same zone, there are 12 wholesalers (private fish processing factories), these factories are private establishments that process, package and store halieutic products before exporting them. ... Table 1 describe the different species inventoried by the survey and marketed in Nouakchott fish market (during the investigationthe species names were presented in French, mostly in Wolof language because it’s most known between merchants cause of the dominance of this ethnic group between fisher)."
3. "Une délégation de la Banque Mondiale se rend au marché aux poissons de Nouakchott" [A delegation from the World Bank went to the Nouakchott fish market] (in French). Mauritanian News Agency. 2020-02-24. Archived from the original on 2024-05-14. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  The article notes: "Une délégation de la Banque Mondiale, présidée par Mme Deborah L. Wetzel, directrice de l’intégration régionale pour l’Afrique, le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique du Nord, s’est rendue lundi, au marché aux poissons de Nouakchott, où elle s’est rendue dans les hangars d’étal des produits et à la plage de débarquement des pirogues de pêche traditionnelle. ... Dans le cadre du soutien des infrastructures du secteur de la pêche, une enceinte d’une longueur de 3,5 km et composée d’une grande entrée et de 5 voies de sortie a été réalisée autour de l’aire maritime du marché de poissons de Nouakchott. ... Le programme a également financé la consolidation de l’énergie électrique du marché, au moyen de l’installation de 5 stations et d’un réseau d’éclairage public, un réseau d’adduction en eau et la construction de 300 habitations pour les habitants résidant au marché et qui sont au nombre de 8.000 personnes."
  From Google Translate: "A delegation from the World Bank, chaired by Ms. Deborah L. Wetzel, director of regional integration for Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, visited the Nouakchott fish market on Monday, where she visited the product stalls and the landing beach for traditional fishing canoes. ... As part of supporting infrastructure for the fishing sector, a 3.5 km long enclosure consisting of a large entrance and 5 exit routes was built around the maritime area of the fish market. from Nouakchott. The program also financed the consolidation of the market's electrical energy, through the installation of 5 stations and a public lighting network, a water supply network and the construction of 300 homes for residents. residing at the market and numbering 8,000 people."
4. "Mauritanie: la pénurie de poisson s'aggrave à Nouakchott" [Mauritania: fish shortage worsens in Nouakchott] (in French). Radio France Internationale. 2019-08-23. Archived from the original on 2020-02-22. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  The article notes: "Le principal marché aux poissons de Nouakchott, généralement très animé, est affecté par la baisse de ses activités de pêche. Des centaines de pirogues sont immobilisées sur le rivage depuis la Tabaski, qui a occasionné le départ massif des pécheurs mauritaniens et sénégalais, partis dans leurs familles pour la fête de l’Aïd el-Kébir. En nombre réduit, les pécheurs restés en activité ne peuvent pas assurer l’approvisionnement régulier du marché."
  From Google Translate: "The main fish market in Nouakchott, usually very lively, is affected by the decline in its fishing activities. Hundreds of canoes have been immobilized on the shore since Tabaski, which caused the massive departure of Mauritanian and Senegalese fishermen, who left to return to their families for the Eid el-Kébir celebration. In reduced numbers, the fishermen who remain active cannot ensure regular supplies to the market."
5. Mills, Greg; Herbst, Jeffrey; Obasanjo, Olusegun; Davis, Dickie (2017). Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success. London: Hurst & Company. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-84904-873-6. Retrieved 2024-05-14 – via Google Books.
  The book notes: "Nouakchott's fish market at the Plage des Pêcheurs (the fishermen's beach) is a place of great energy. Teams of men, some in oilskins, most barefoot, heave colourfully decorated pirogues up the beach. Others store away outboard engines and pack handmade nets. Boys and girls sell drinks and food, and donkey carts lug bags and boxes of fish. The concrete tables in the marketplace are piled with fish, the floor littered with discarded heads and entrails, while traders seal cooler boxes for the refrigerated trucks parked outside."
6. Pitcher, Gemma (2007) [1977]. Lonely Planet Africa (11 ed.). Footscray, Victoria: Lonely Planet. p. 424. ISBN 978-1-74104-482-9. Retrieved 2024-05-14 – via Internet Archive.
  The book notes: "Don't ever think of leaving the city without a visit to the extremely colourful fish market (Port de Pêche), about 5km from the centre. You'll see hundreds of teams of men dragging in heavy hand-knotted fishing nets on the beach and small boys hurrying back and forth with trays of fish. The best time is between 4pm and 6pm, when the fishing boats return - unforgettable!"
7. Ham, Anthony (2013). West Africa (8 ed.). Footscray, Victoria: Lonely Planet. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-74179-797-8. Retrieved 2024-05-14 – via Internet Archive.
  The book notes: "Although it's not a highlight of the country, Nouakchott is sleepily idiosyncratic and you could do worse than spend an afternoon at the gloriously frantic fish market (one of the busiest in West Africa), ..."
8. Phillips, Matt (2007). The Africa Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent. Footscray, Victoria: Lonely Planet. pp. 50–51. ISBN 978-1-74104-602-1. Retrieved 2024-05-14 – via Internet Archive.
  The book notes on page 50: "Nouakchott, the capital, is a discombobulating city that reflects the geographical duality of the country. Though it's only five kilometres inland from the Atlantic, it's more a city of the interior than of the coast — yet it boasts the most active fish market in West Africa."
  The book notes on page 51: "Nouakchott's fish market is the most colourful in West Africa."
9. Ould Ahmed Salem, Zekeria (2009). "Les écueils du "partenariat": l'Union européenne et les accords de pêche avec l'Afrique" [The pitfalls of "partnership": The European Union and the fisheries agreements with Africa]. Politique Africaine N-116 : Gouverner la mer. Etats, pirates, sociétés [African Policy N-116: Governing the Sea. States, Pirates, Companies] (in French). Éditions Karthala. p. 40. ISBN 978-2-8111-0327-9. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  The book notes: "Du reste, certaines des réalisations visées ont déjà été accomplies: le marché aux poissons de Nouakchott, par exemple, a été construit par le Japon il y a plusieurs années et fonctionne normalement."
  From Google Translate: "Moreover, some of the targeted achievements have already been accomplished: the Nouakchott fish market, for example, was built by Japan several years ago and is functioning normally."
10. Learoussy, Hana Youssef; Tfeil, Hasni; Dartige, Aly Yahya; Aarab, Lotfi (2022). "Histamine content in fresh and frozen pelagic species from the Mauritanian Atlantic Coast". Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture. doi:10.9755/ejfa.2022.v34.i8.2920. ProQuest 2731816705.
  The article notes: "Hundred and eight frozen and fresh pelagic of scombroid and non-scombroid species were collected from the Nouakchott fish market (Mauritanian Atlantic coast) in different period of 2020 and 2021. ... No significant variation in histamine levels between scombroid and non-scombroid fish species was obtained; thereby, the study showed that fish product commercialized at the Nouakchott fish market have a good quality and safe for human consumption. ... Samples were purchased from the Nouakchott fish market, which is the landing site of artisanal fishing practitioners (18°05'35'N; 16°01'34'W)."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow the fish market in Nouakchott to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 08:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Cunard's research. Obviously a very notable fish market. A frivolous nomination. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:26, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep, clearly very notable. Apart from the English-language sources (97 results, some probably similar/equal to those listed above), there are several reliable academic sources in French. There's enough here for for a full article to be written on the topic if anyone has the time. Anyone fluent in Mauritanian/Hassaniya Arabic will probably be able to find more sources. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:34, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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