Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Lobello Jr


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:03, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Anthony Lobello Jr

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This speed skater has very limited notability. Apparently (the article gives no sources) he competed in the 2006 Olympics but did not medal. The remainder of the article is useless, self-promotional prose. It could be streamlined to salvage a useful nugget, but I don't think it's worth the effort given notability being borderline anyway. Chutznik (talk) 21:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Participation in the olympics explicitly meets WP:ATH. Nom is correct that the article needs serious work and perhaps it should just be reduced to a stub, but deletion is not warranted. I42 (talk) 21:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions.  --Eastmain (talk) 23:56, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. All participants at the Olympics are notable. -- Eastmain (talk) 23:56, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * keep Meets notability guidelines for atheletes. Edward321 (talk) 02:36, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:ATHLETE, although it made me think of something I'd never thought of about WP:ATHLETE. A guy who competes as the sole member of the Egyptian winter Olympic ski team (As I recall the instance....he didn't even live there anymore, and didn't finish, but because he held Egyptian citizenship and was willing to pay his own way, the country let him represent them) qualify for an article, despite not even having to qualify, but the #4 finisher at the US trials who is a much better skier, but had to qualify against medal contenders, won't qualify. That seems to be the shortcoming of the athlete criteria. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:28, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
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