Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary mayne

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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 of the debate was delete. --Celestianpower háblame 21:29, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gary mayne

Non-notable athlete MacRusgail 22:37, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Comment - created by Svenson, whose backlog you might find "interesting". --MacRusgail 22:44, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


My name is Gary Mayne and I am the athlete in question on this page. A friend came across it by chance. I have no idea who has created it, but I do not object to its existence. --Gary Mayne 14:41, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Comment I would ask the user who referred to me as a "non-notable athlete" to refine their comment and post their times for the 100m on my discussion page. --Gary Mayne 14:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete: Does not meet guidelines set in WP:BIO. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 15:54, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as probable hoax. The only Gary Mayne I can find reference to is a trombonist. Creator is a probable sock puppet who has been propping up other spurious hoax articles in AfD. --Isotope23 16:07, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. Running fast does make one notable. This person could win major competitions or brake records, so i say that he or is notable. I vote Do Not Delete. Logophile 16:15, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

DO NOT DELETE- deleting this would be deleting a page of a future athelete. The boy obviously has potential and I feal it would be vandalism to delete it.

  • Keep : This athlete is clearly very talented and could be a factor in the London 2012 Olympics. THAT is a notable acheivement! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.37.156 (talk • contribs) 16:30, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Then we include him NOW, incase he wins a medal in 2012. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 17:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete hoax/non notable. One of the two. chowells 20:11, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment Gary Mayne has somehow managed to find himself listed on Gary so this needs to be removed too if the article is AfD'd
  • Comment this page was vandalised by User:86.9.0.194 who attempted to change the vots of several people. I have rolled it back to the last edit by me. See [1]. chowells 20:25, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, non-notable athlete who poses a verifiability problem. Olympians are notable. People who fail to reach the final heat of a national championship because they barely broke twelve seconds are not notable. Lord Bob 19:26, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Does not meet WP:BIO. Whether he "could" break a record or be a factor in a future Olympics is irrelevant, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. -- Corvus 22:11, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Comment I am Gary Mayne and i would like to add that when I ran the race i did have a broken leg. This is why i failed to reach my usual times of 10.2 (ish) seconds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.144.131.4 (talk • contribs) 21 October 2005, 09:42 (UTC)

  • Delete For above reasons, he's not noteable enough for Wikipedia, and whose to say if he actually does make it to the 2012 Olympics, that's still more than six years away. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, if he does become an Olympic athelete, he can have an article; but untill then he get's no article. — Kjammer ⌂ 17:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Not currently notable and Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. --Optichan 17:42, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. The only race mentioned in this article is one in which the subject came in 7th. If Gary Mayne is currently notable -- not someone who might be notable in the future, but notable now -- this article would have to be improved significantly to prove that. --Metropolitan90 23:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Looks pretty clearly like a juvenile hoax. -- BrianDuff 17:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Do Not Delete It is obviously not a hoax as the link given shows Gary Mayne and his time in the race.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.43.21.187 (talk • contribs) 17:51, 22 October 2005

  • Delete. If the person really exists, he is not (yet?) notable enough for a Wikipedia entry. If he doesn't exist, this is clearly a hoax and should be speedied. Aecis 19:43, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Far from notable. Remy B 18:08, 24 October 2005 (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.