Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mika Aarnikka


 * 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 keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 01:06, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Mika Aarnikka

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Procedural nomination per this discussion at RfD. Page was previously a stub article created in 2017, before being BLARred without consensus in 2022. CycloneYoris talk! 01:23, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Sports,  and Finland. CycloneYoris talk! 01:23, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added some references. He seems to be notable as a business executive. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 08:08, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - I'm not super thrilled by the sourcing identified by Eastmain. The Ilta-Sanomat story is an interview, as is the Kauppalehti (based on the title and except, I don't have access to the unpaywalled version) story. Also worth noting that Kauppalehti is a ... mixed bag, at best. If this was a WP:NORG case, I'd discount it pretty much wholesale. Based on my rather poor swedish, the Åbo Underrättelser story (at least the paper version, which is the only one I have access to) is more about the business than Aarikka. Yes, he's mentioned, but it's all just "Aarikka said so-and-so about this-and-that thing his employer is doing." As a business executive alone, I would !vote to delete.On a more positive note, the sports career looks more promising. He was apparently voted by sports reporters as the best (Finnish) sailor jointly with Petri Leskinen in 1996 (, paywalled) and the Sailor of the Year in both 1992 and 1996 by Suomen Purjehtijaliitto, again together with Petri Leskinen. There's also further interview coverage from 1990s, e.g. |Helsingin Sanomat (1994, paywalled). Also, appears to have been involved in a controversy in terms of using the sail number to advertise a sponsor in 1994 (|Helsingin Sanomat, 1994, paywalled]). There's also a ton of coverage about the subject's domestic sports career, which includes the 1991 Finnish Championship in the 470 class. (|Helsingin Sanomat, 1991, paywalled).And that's from a single newspaper, a quick skim thru the National Library of Finland's newspaper archive (No public online access, so no links. Sorry.) shows there's at least a full page bio in Uusi Suomi on 7 May 1989. Searching for more is frustrated a bit by the fact that there are so many newspaper hits of him in Olympics and various Finnish sporting events. Plenty of these fall in that awkward "probably WP:ROUTINE, but a bit bordeline" category, where they combine sports results with some interview material and perhaps a paragraph of biographic material: not quite "purely sports scores", but not in-depth either.It's a bit of a mixed bag, but even if nothing individually is a "smoking gun", the amount of medium-quality sources is enough to push me to a keep.-Ljleppan (talk) 08:02, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Okoslavia (talk) 14:40, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't see what the problem is. The outcome of the RfD was "restore" and the article has plenty of references this time. J I P  &#124; Talk 15:57, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


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