Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maria Manakova

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 01:57, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Maria Manakova
Only 111 Google hits; notable only for appearing nude. Paul Klenk 07:21, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Why wouldn't a Chess Grandmaster be considered notable?  If anything she's more notable than many other grandmasters (almost all of whom have Wikipedia articles) because of her extra magazine publicity.  Thatdog 07:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if other grandmasters have articles. -- Kjkolb 08:40, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep SaltyPig 12:15, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Posing passed pawns. Alf 12:19, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Chess grandmaster is noteworthy. --Cactus.man 15:04, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per the above --Mysidia (talk) 16:45, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nomination is not well thought out.  There are only 184 Woman Grandmaster's in the world.  Maria Manakova would be encyclopedically notable for her strength as a chess player even without a nude pictorial. Quale 21:20, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. As per Quale.--Prosfilaes 21:21, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's regrettable that the page author considers nudity to be more noteworthy than achieving grandmaster status. We are all capable of nudity. How many of us are GM's?
 * Hundreds of people are GMs, and the differences on the chess board, except for the top few, are incomprehensible to most people. A chessplayer posing nude for money is unusual (the article says unique for a female grandmaster, though I wonder how anyone not a full-time researcher with the Kinsey institute could have real evidence for that), and it's something we all can comprehend. The article is yours to edit, but I'm afraid even if you do add a bunch of information on her playing style, most of us will come away with "Russian female grandmaster. Posed nude for Russian magazine Speed. But which one?"--Prosfilaes 17:49, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per the general consensus. Hall Monitor 22:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep all GMs, WGMs and national chess champions. Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:48, 31 August 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.