Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Dong-Won (figure skater)


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:26, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Lee Dong-Won (figure skater)

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This article is about a 12-year-old figure skater who competes on the junior level nationally and the novice level internationally. He will not be old enough for international junior competition until the fall of 2010. WP:ATHLETE states that an athlete must compete at the highest levels of sport. WP:FIGURE/N is how WikiProject Figure Skating has interpreted that rule in the context of figure skating competitions. High level figure skaters compete on the Senior (which is the Olympic level) and Junior levels. There are Championship-level and high-level competitions for international juniors, but none for international novices. Novice-level skaters, therefore, are not notable because they cannot compete on the highest level of sport.

According to the person who remove the prod: winning both the national championship and a prestigious international trophy makes him notable. He won the nationals on the junior level and a minor international on the novice level. This does not make him notable. Kolindigo (talk) 19:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC) 
 * Frankly I'm a bit skeptical here. It seems like winning the national championship is pretty notable in and of itself, even if its at a youth level.  Are you arguing that youth athletes cannot be notable, or does 'junior' have a different definition here? Locke9k (talk) 21:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete: Lack of notability. Google search asked me if I spelled the name wrong, alternate suggested name returned a big fat zero results. R3ap3R.inc (talk) 01:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:52, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete, youth sports are intrinsically not notable, and this meets no exception that I know of. Punkmorten (talk) 07:53, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


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