Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Babayan


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:03, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Alexander Babayan

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Non-notable person (vanity page / autobio), unreferenced, and google search for that exact name brings up 103 hits, most of which are twitter and facebook, and no evidence of notability. I would CSD but the page claims (without evidence) that he is a champion. I've added maintenance tags to request references and support of notability 4x, but the original poster deleted 3x and now an IP has started removing them.  7   talk   22:45, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:02, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as unverifiable. I cannot verify the claim to being a dance champion.  As a competitive latin dancer, one could argue that meeting WP:ATHLETE may be appropriate.  The ISDF ranking (see bottom of page for spreadhseet link) shows no ranking for him in th Latin Dance rankings.  The World Dance Council provide no ranking ior other membership search function to allow verification.  The International Professional Dancesport Council world ranking shows no Alexander Babayan.  If this person were a notable dancer, one would expect to see some form of coverage or evidence of international competition. -- Whpq (talk) 16:41, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete I did wonder if it may be ever so faintly possible that competition results/info have been reported in the Georgian language - hence no search results. But a national champion to not be listed on official membership/rankings? Even tried a couple of spelling variations and still nothing. Aleksey Vayner had better watch out for the competiton ... Plutonium27 (talk) 14:04, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, the claim in the article is not very clear. Dancesport has multiple international organisations so there isn't one clear governing body.  It could very well be that the Georgian national championships are not held under the auspices of any international governing body.  I am not familiar with competitive dance.  However, if that were the case, I'm not sure that being a Georgian national champion would be notable enough.  As for possibly being only covered in the Georgian language, based on this article, the dancer lives in Toronto, Canada so if he were a notable dancer, some for of coverage in the English language might be expected.  As somebody who lives in the Greater Toronto Area, and grew up in Toronto itself, I can assure you that there is a variety of press aside from the mainstream dailies that might have covered somebody like this.  The Eye Weekly and Now Magazine are two that immediately come to mind as alterntive press that might give this sort of thing some coverage. -- Whpq (talk) 14:58, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
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