Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heikki Lahtinen

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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 was delete. Fabrictramp (talk) 23:51, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Heikki Lahtinen

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Fails WP:BIO because he has never competed at the highest level (Olympics, World Championships, European Championships) of the mainly professional non-league sport: athletics. In this respect, his national championship victory means nothing - nothing - because he was the only competitor. Punkmorten (talk) 08:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Neutral: I'm not so sure. He turns up a lot of Google hits, some of them to obvious media sources, and he has a more substantial article on the Finnish Wikipedia. Almost all of the hits are in Finnish, however, and it'd be good if a Finnish-speaker could do some legwork.  RGTraynor  14:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 01:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel J. Leivick (talk) 05:25, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete A 59 year old athlete is not sufficiently notable of itself to justify an article. It's arguable that this would be sufficient to justify an article even if he were competitive in open-age events. The fact that his victories appear to be in masters class age categories makes him even less notable. In international rankings he's only ranked 5th in the 55-59 male 20km walk event and international rankings for distance walking in masters don't go for longer distances than that. See http://www.mastersathletics.net/20-KM-Road-Walk-Men-Masters-Athletics.423.0.html If you have a look at this link, there's a huge number of potential articles here if an international top five ranking in an age class is sufficient to support notability. While the subject may be notable in Finland he doesn't appear to have any profile outside of Finland and therefore is unlikely to be sufficient to establish notability for inclusion in an English speaking encyclopedia. Debate (talk) 23:23, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment. I haven't done the necessary reasearch to say whether this article should be kept or deleted, but I must point out that if the subject is notable in Finland then he is notable enough for English Wikipedia. The "English" in "English Wikipedia" refers to the language in which it is written, not the subjects which are written about. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:57, 6 May 2008 (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.