Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merì Grigoryan


 * 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. Consensus is that the article does not meet the notability guidelines. Davewild (talk) 10:50, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Merì Grigoryan

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I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline and the more detailed Notability (biographies) requirement. " It was deprodded by User:Spinosa76 (creator) with the no rationale. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:02, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Davewild (talk) 06:36, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: being prominent as a female chess player and even founding a chess team is not the same thing as passing the notability guidelines for a biography. Essentially, if print sources are talking about her, then it's likely someone will need to search for her name. There is no evidence that they are, so. . . delete. Hithladaeus (talk) 17:12, 16 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep: Grigoryan's achievements are significant and notable; British Women's Champion, representing her country at individual and team events, such as the Olympiad ... etc. Chessbase News, an authoritative source for contemporary and historical chess articles recently covered Grigoryan [here]. Details of her achievements are evidenced in the article, as well as her charity work. In-line citations could be provided accordingly. Brittle heaven (talk) 02:17, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete She was English Ladies Blitz Champion in 2004, a considerably less impressive achievement than winning the national women's championship. I wouldn't attach too much significance to the ChessBase article either as she has reported for ChessBase on several occasions and I suspect they may have been doing her a favour in return. I'm not seeing much coverage on her outside of that article and British chess blogs. If there were mainstream news sources covering her charity work or achievements in chess I'd be more inclined to change my mind. Cobblet (talk) 09:24, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


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