Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Wang Kan

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. Bratsche^talk 03:56, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kenneth Wang Kan

Another non-notable athlete from Singapore. He did compete at the 2005 South East Asian Games, but this is a quite small event as far as athletics goes, nowhere close to its European, American or African counterparts in terms of importance. I'm all for keeping Olympic competitors or medal winners at major international events, but this is below my bar. Thousands of people have performed better. Punkmorten 19:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:BIO unless I'm completely off base and track is enormously popular in Singapore.--Isotope23 20:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Being a participant in a sporting event isn't enough to make a person notable, WP:BIO refers.  (aeropagitica)  22:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. He is more than 20% below than the WR, so very nn. If a man were more than 20% slower than the WR, he would bnot win the respective women's event, which is an indication of their lack of skill.Blnguyen 03:07, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, international athlete. Kappa 18:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, He is well known in Singapore. All over newspaper and word-of mouth. only those ignorant ones who done follow track in the country or south east asia, asian region doesnt know. (Manha 07:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC))
  • Comment - user's second edit - the preivious was on a related AfD on another Singaporean athelete.Blnguyen 07:51, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Personal attack noted with amusement.Blnguyen 07:51, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable athelete, he didn't win a medal at the SEA Games. I a Singaporean never heard of him before. The newspapers did not really mention about him. --Terence Ong 10:13, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep,oh.terence, so u mean the newspaper (did not really) mentioned much about him. that means he did appeared in newspaper rite? i believe quite a couple of times although not in depth..tink thats where this site provides a good platform for ppl to know more about him.(Mark waite 14:41, 18 February 2006 (UTC))
  • Comment User has made three edits, all on related singaporean athletes on afd.Blnguyen 01:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep per Kappa. Siva1979^{Talk to me} 16:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep;he is notable in South East Asia!(Kanett 07:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC))
  • Note-User's 2nd edit, the other was on a similar AfD for another singaporean athlete.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:10, 20 February 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.