Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Bogomolov Jr.

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The result of the debate was keep. howcheng {chat} 22:28, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alex Bogomolov Jr.

I don't know if being ranked the #202 player in the world, almost three years after a career high of being ranked #97, is really sufficient notability on its own without any listing of championships won or challenged for or some other reason it's important we should know who this guy is. Daniel Case 06:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep A top 100 ranked tennis player easily qualifies. CalJW 06:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

He was ... three years ago. He's now number 202. I admit tennis is not my forte but I can't see where the notability comes from. Daniel Case 06:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: We really can't move people in and out because of what their current ranking happens to be. As far as I know, Björn Borg and John McEnroe have no current ranking whatsoever. Either he should be in because his career-high ranking qualifies him, or he should be deleted because it does not. I agree that he doesn't seem notable, but neither do most of the professional sportspeople who have articles, and with Wikipedia's general inclusionism when it comes to sport, I assume he will be kept. u p p l a n d 08:36, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per CalJW. --Knucmo2 12:25, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand to show what else he's done besides a brief visit to the top 100. Crunch 14:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - I don't think sports rankings alone can establish notability. People like Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe are notable because of their fame ... playing in televised tournaments, etc. As for this guy, yeah, he did just barely crack the Top 100, but if you look at all sports and all people who have ever cracked the top 100 rankings you could create literally tens of thousands of worthless nn-bio pages. Cyde Weys 2M-VOTE 16:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete, no other indication of notability beyond formerly-97th-ranked, except being married to another tennis player who's also formerly-Top-100. I would be more inclined to vote Keep if Mr. B was shown to have won major-tour tournaments and earned headlines, not just the agate type of quarterfinalists. Google search shows an award demonstrating notability: USTA Circuit Player of the Week for sweeping the singles and doubles titles at a USTA Pro Circuit event in July '05. Weak keep. Barno 01:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep as per CalJW abakharev 01:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I haven't changed my mind, even if consensus is going the other way. You must have me mixed up with someone else. Daniel Case 05:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, Daniel. My mixup abakharev 06:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 02:00, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I heard on the news today (in Australia) that he has been fined at the Australian Open for misbehaviour during the course of play. It must have made some headlines. Also, if you see Wikipedia:WikiProject AFL, it appears that having played one game of AFL is enough to warrant an article, which I disagree with, as AFL is only played in Australia, and you only have to be about the 650th best player in Australia at some stage in your career to get onto the payroll.Blnguyen 02:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Blnguyen and others. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 03:10, 19 January 2006 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.