Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Werknesh Kidane

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Werknesh Kidane
Not notable. How many hundreds of Olympians are there? Delete. - UtherSRG 23:01, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi UtherSRG, I am not sure what the standard is but she is a well known runniner. Here is the information: http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/athlete=115653/index.html Shiferaw Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I usually don't like absolute policies, but unless someone can come up with something more nuanced, I'll say keep all Olympic athletes. android&harr;talk 23:15, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * We can Keep all Olympic athletes, since Wikipedia is not paper. Kappa 00:08, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * No we can't, because Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base. Since most of the information on Wikipedia is available elsewhere on the Web, the only value we add is selection and synthesis. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:21, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * So yeah, we have space to synthesize information on every Olympic sport, individual events in each Games, and the careers of the competitors, and we can hope to be more NPOV than the rest of the Web. We could even be more navigable than the web, but unfortunately navigation pages seem to be frowned upon. Kappa 02:40, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not a space issue. Nobody ever suggested it was. It's an issue of article quality, and whether there are enough editors watching the page to insure that stubs gets expanded into articles and that the information in those articles is accurate, verified, and kept up to date. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:22, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * If you let them build it, they will come. Kappa 20:30, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe, maybe not. But the vandals surely will.  Rossami (talk)
 * Keep. 4300 Google hits on the Web and, what is far more impressive to me, 46 hits in Google News. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:26, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Appears to be a consistent runner winning medals in high quality races. Meets my criteria as being a notable athlete. Capitalistroadster 02:29, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Several top five finishes at World Cross Country Championships, second in 10000m World champs, fourth in the 10000m at the 2004 Olympics. Obvious Keep. Raven42 04:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. - Mustafaa 10:08, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep big fish in small ponds, so long as it is a notable small pond. Distance running is a notable small pond, IMO. Shimmin 12:03, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

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