Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sreten Ninković


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The result was   keep. Consensus to keep following three relistings The Bushranger One ping only 23:24, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Sreten Ninković

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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  Cliff   Smith  17:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  Cliff   Smith  17:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

fails WP:NTRACK national record is not official, has not placed in World Marathon Majors or competed in Olympics. LibStar (talk) 12:04, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Please consider his results posted on the all-athletic profile whose link is on the article. While he has not competed in the Olympics or World Marathon Majors, his marathon times were noticeably better than either olympic A or B norms (evidence that lack of participation in the olympics might have been a result of choice, not due to failure); having not placed in the top 10 places in the World Marathon Majors shouldn't disqualify the article as there are numerous articles on wikipedia of marathoners who did not place top 10 WMM. Zastavafan76 (talk) 14:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * please list these other marathoners you are referring to? LibStar (talk) 11:57, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 01:04, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Serbia-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 04:11, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment. He is six times senior national champion / I was however not able to determine whether he was ever placed in the top 40 in the IAAF end-of-the-year list.--Ymblanter (talk) 23:59, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 21:15, 31 July 2012 (UTC)




 * Comment Delete:, per WP:NTRACK. With due respect to Ninković's achievements, he seems to have placed 3rd in the 2002 Belgrade marathon and did not finish at the 2002 finals of the European athletics championships. -- Trevj (talk) 16:52, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The considerable number of sources referred to below by Zastavafan76 have caused me to reconsider, but I'm still not sure that Ninković has at least 10 top threes, or other claimed requirement. Maybe he meets WP:GNG, but I've not spent the time putting the sources into a translation site to form an opinion on that. -- Trevj (talk) 14:29, 9 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep: He most certainly fulfills criteria #6 of WP:NTRACK: Has won the elite division of multiple notable* road races (including the same race multiple times) or has established a history of highly competitive, non-winning performances in many notable races (at least 10 top threes). He placed third at the Belgrade marathon and your own citation shows that he was only seconds slower than the second-placed runner who ran a 2:18, which means that he fulfilled an Olympic B norm for the marathon. Furthermore, he has competed for his country in foreign countries (Budapest, Hungary in 2001, Munich, Germany in 2002, Austin, TX, USA in 2002, Athens, Athens Greece in 2008) which stands for his success outside of his nation's borders. He has a presence in the media having been constantly cited as one of Serbia's biggest names in athletics--I believe this qualifies him as not being a failure. --> Mentioned by "Serbian Diaspora" as the First runner (in Serbian context this means fastest) of Serbia and Montenegro, won the Budapest Half Marathon in 2001, Mentioned by Politika along with Olympian Ana Subotic as the "fastest senior" of Serbia in 2007, B92 citing him as one of Serbia's silver medalists at the Balkaniada in Athens in 2008--the others were Olympians Asmir Kolasinac and Ana Subotic. Ninkovic ran an 8:20 (min/sec) in the indoor 3000 meter B92 citing him as "state athlete" of Yugoslavia Zastavafan76 (talk) 07:03, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 21:24, 7 August 2012 (UTC)




 * Weak keep: Is his silver medal at the "Balkaniada" a silved medal in the Balkan Games? FkpCascais (talk) 01:24, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Good question, I'm not sure myself but apparently he got first place in the Balkan Games for the marathon in 2001--> Zastavafan76 (talk) 04:57, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per Zastavafan76's research. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 13:50, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
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