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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 00:48, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Egil Jacobsen[edit]

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I'm not a chess expert but I'd say that a sportsperson of this type would at least have to compete internationally to be notable, for instance in the Chess Olympiad which started during his career. I don't see that this person has. Geschichte (talk) 11:00, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As a member of the WikiProject Chess, I have written hundreds of pages (articles or stubs) on chess players, who are notable, for example as national chess champions (see, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chess_national_championships, please). By the way, Egil Jacobsen won twice the Danish Chess Championship. So, I do not understand an objection presented by Geschichte. I hope, it is only a misunderstanding. -- Mibelz (talk) 17:11, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Winning the Danish championship twice seems notable enough to me -- Boing! said Zebedee 00:26, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The guy was national champion twice. I'd say that's notable! Cls14 (talk) 11:40, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep He played for Denmark in the 1928 Chess Olympiad held in the Netherlands. [1] Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 19:28, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. SunCreator's comment proves Geschichte wrong on at least one account, and I believe the subject of the article notable enough to keep in any case, regardless of Olympiad participation. GrandMattster 19:34, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.