Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Little (sports administrator)


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The result was delete. Consensus herein is for deletion. North America1000 01:00, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

James Little (sports administrator)

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Seems to lack notability. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. Only thing that he was "Niue Chef de Mission to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics". Is Niue's (population 1161) Chef de Mission inhirently notable? duffbeerforme (talk) 11:32, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete On general notability grounds. Not sure why this is even listed under martial arts - a bit of boxing while in school and a boxing administrator later on does not really cut it.Peter Rehse (talk) 16:13, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails GNG and SIGCOV. I note that the creator has a long history of creating articles about people from one particular school many of which have also been deleted. DerbyCountyinNZ  (Talk Contribs) 17:58, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly not notable as a martial artist. More importantly, I don't see any claims that show he's done anything significant or received the coverage necessary to meet WP:GNG. Mdtemp (talk) 20:29, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Needs more work on the Larsen incident in respect of which Little played an important role. Being head of a the Olympic Games effort of an independent sovereign country certainly makes him notableDome1000 (talk) 01:12, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment Re: Olympics he fails WP:NSPORTS/WP:NOLYMPICS.


 * Delete My search found no significant coverage to support a claim of meeting WP:GNG. There's no evidence he was head of a country's Olympic Games effort (and I'm not sure that's grounds for automatic notability even if it was true). According to his autobiography he was VP of the Cook Islands Olympic Committee, but that's insufficient to claim notability.  Being a clerk to someone who was assassinated would fall under WP:NOTINHERITED and the only other source is his alma mater's magazine.  There's no significant independent coverage and no accomplishments that meet any notability criteria I'm aware of. Papaursa (talk) 18:32, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment His political and constitutional role is described in the standard histories of the country of Niue. These are referenced fully in the notes to the article.Dome1000 (talk) 23:11, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * So you're claiming he's a notable politician although he wasn't elected to any office? Please tell us what notability criteria he meets as a politician and provide references. It might also be worth noting the Niue has a population of less than 1200 people. I don't see how being an official's clerk is an indication of notability.Mdtemp (talk) 18:17, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment What a naive and ignorant comment. There are wikipedia categories for public servants. You are objecting to his title. He was an important official in the colonial administration. Chief clerk was his title. look up Chief Clerk (United States Department of State) or Clerk of the House for example. I did not claim that he was a politician.Dome1000 (talk) 20:36, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete I agree with the delete comments above. I see nothing to show he meets any notability criteria or has the coverage to meet GNG. 204.126.132.231 (talk) 19:07, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment One contributor above introduces, as an argument affecting notability, the smallness of Niue. That is a most discriminatory position. By that criteria the wikipedia coverage of the UK (for example) is greatly exaggerated when compared with that of China a country at least 20 times UK's population (and probably its size too). On a world scale, using the concept of "smallness", many UK (for example) articles would be totally unnotable. Dome1000 (talk) 21:48, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
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