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Streameast

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Stub created for WP:ITN; not seeing notability. Almost all of the coverage seems to come from it being raided, which is WP:1E (but applied to a website, I guess?). ^EF⁵ 17:00, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Piracy, Internet, Websites, Egypt, and United Arab Emirates. ^EF⁵ 17:00, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
• Delete, as you said there doesn't seem to be much notability and it's a very short article. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 17:13, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

  Being short isn't valid deletion rationale; AFD is not cleanup. jolielover♥talk 17:55, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Delete per nom 2606:9400:98A0:92A0:F965:A052:8324:6519 (talk) 17:44, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. There was no coverage of it before the raid as far as far as I could find. 5.57.243.123 (talk) 18:00, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

  To be fair, there's been some... . And... well, that's it. Rest seems to be scammy links to other piracy sites. Also, I can't even vouch for the reliability of the above sources. jolielover♥talk 18:15, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

• Keep. Lots of high-quality news coverage. In addition to the sources already in the article, there are articles in Los Angeles Times, CNN, Variety, Bleacher Report, USA Today, and many more. Stats from the The Athletic include that it was the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform before its takedown, and that it averaged 136 million monthly visitors, both signs pointing to its notability. It is likely that major news sources did not report on Streameast before its takedown because doing so would draw attention to the platform and actively do harm to sports leagues and legal streaming services. So the flurry of news coverage upon its takedown should be understood in that context, and should not in my opinion be dismissed as WP:1E. BanjoZebra (talk) 19:35, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. There's no evidence of sustained notability, and even the facts that are given are incomplete. GenevieveDEon (talk) 22:23, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

  Its the largest sports piracy streamer in the world. It had 1.6 billion views last year alone. It's extremely notable 2601:240:C401:3650:764:6783:B77F:2ED6 (talk) 13:59, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Is that reported in a wide range of reliable sources? And is it a notable area of activity, or is it more like having the world's largest pile of matchsticks? GenevieveDEon (talk) 20:21, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Delete per nom. Article is tiny and will likely never get expanded Hungry403 (talk) 23:18, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Keep. Article is accurate and precise. The crackdown just happend on Saturday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.74.253.199 (talk) 05:00, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

• Delete. Notability not established. Article currently is a two-line substub so deletion is no big deal, it can be recreated easily if notability emerges. Stifle (talk) 08:16, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

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