Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joji Miyao


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 04:34, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Joji Miyao

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While he seems to pass WP:Notability (sports) broadly, I question how well it equips us to handle tennis bios. He is a former lowly ranked pro tennis player (World No. 863 ) who committed a non-news worthy crime, in and of itself. To have a bio for every player who was once ranked in the top 900 would really water-down the content away from an encyclopedia and more to a mere record keeper for one, and is WP meant to be a repository for bios of all those involved in a sensationist news stories (drugs and porn, soft-core but in Japan)? Mayumashu (talk) 15:01, 23 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note:I ve listed it, as well, at the sorting page for deletion articles on sportspeople Mayumashu (talk) 15:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment In addition, he doesn t have a Japanese WP bio . Mayumashu (talk) 03:38, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. Fails WP:ATHLETE for notability as a tennis player and WP:ONEEVENT for his nefarious activity. Eddie.willers (talk) 01:27, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  cab (call) 04:16, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions.  cab (call) 04:16, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure what you mean by passing WP:ATHLETE broadly -- he doesn't seem to meet the guidelines for tennis players, and they look reasonably broad to me. The event doesn't seem all that notable either, though the news articles do at least span a couple days. Looking like a delete to me, unless someone finds more. —Quasirandom (talk) 01:18, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I mean that he has played at a professional level, but I made that statement not knowing there were particular guidelines for tennis players - will look for them. Mayumashu (talk) 02:46, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Looked at them and they re a little steep - good to see. Yeah, he definitely falls well short of them.  There are a lot of players who have not won a ATP 500 level or better match who have bios and still more who are 'red-ink linked' on pages like the draw sheets for the ATP Challenger Tour  - there needs to be a lot of work done to have tennis bios and the draw sheet article pages on WP follow these guidelines Mayumashu (talk) 02:50, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.