Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valeriy Skvortsov

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The result was Nomination withdrawn ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 21:00, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Valeriy Skvortsov

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Apparent vanity bio of former athlete. Career includes a 14th place finish in high jumping at the 64 Olympics and a 4th place finish at the 68 Olympics. Also created at Valery Skvortsov ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 19:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete on the basis that I could not find any references, unless winning a European Indoor Championships in Athletics is in itself notable. Might be written by his son based on the username; user also created article Serge Skvortsov which should be AfD as well. --Sesameball^Talk 19:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
  • I went ahead and speedy deleted Serge Skvortsov per WP:CSD#A7 as it held no assertion of notability. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 19:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
• I would suggest that anyone who has competed at a high level, such as the Olympic Games, should be considered notable as an athlete. Backing that up is this list, which states someone by that name won a bronze medal in the European championships in 1966. There are some mentions of him on a Google search in relation to the Olympics, but unfortunately, the IOC doesn't seem to list full results online - just medal winners. Weak keep and hope someone with better Google-fu than I can find more sources. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:18, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

• Weak Keep based on the above nice find, but I still can't find references for the other achievements. But that should be good enough for notability. --Sesameball^Talk 20:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

• Keep - Representing your country at the Olympics automatically makes you notable as per Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Additional_criteria. Plus winning an event at the European Indoor Championships is also very notable. Ben W Bell talk 20:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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