Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Burley

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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 keep. --Coredesat 00:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sam Burley

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There are thousands of national record holders in athletics around the world. WP:BIO, on the other hand, demands that an athlete has competed on the highest level of the sport. Nothing indicates that Sam Burley has. And since holding a national record is not enough to pass WP:BIO, this should go. Punkmorten 08:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete no assertion of anything that would make this pass WP:BIO --Selket Talk 09:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. I'm rather astonished at the blythe assertion that the national record holder in a sport wouldn't likely be competing at that sport's highest level in this country. As it happens, Burley placed second at his distance just this past month in the US Indoor Track National Championships, won the outdoor national championship in 2003, and has competed at the Olympic Trials. All this took me about four minutes to verify. Now I've added my findings to the article, but AfDs shouldn't be filed in cases where the most cursory of searches uncovers ample verification. This is one of them. RGTraynor 16:44, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep - Being a National record holder is notable, and additonally, he is currently ranked 36 in the IAAF world rankings which certainly indicates he is competing at the highest level in his sport. -- Whpq 17:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I am glad we can establish the reasonable guideline that national record holders in each sport are notable. It is a very straight-forward standard to establish DGG 00:56, 9 March 2007 (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.