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The result was keep. LFaraone 03:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Abid Raza[edit]

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Biography that fails WP:BASIC and WP:BLPPRIMARY. IQinn (talk) 02:41, 13 December 2010 (UTC) IQinn[reply]

  • Comment I guess that could be one of the most poetic !votes done at Afd done by the editor who has created all these articles and i wonder what has driven him to such a reply. Please understand we have policies and requirement what should be included into Wikipedia. While your poetic explanation was fun to read it does not show that the article fulfills WP:BASIC and WP:BLPPRIMARY. It does not and you are welcome to provide policy based arguments and evidence concerning these policies. Thank you IQinn (talk) 13:56, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
yes, I help him, but in many cases that help has been to advise him to withdraw quite a number of the challenged articles. I frequently have occasion to say it to those I support generally, as they are more likely to follow such advice when it comes from a supporter. There is nobody here whom I defend unconditionally, because nobody is perfect. I don't think there is any regular contributor here I oppose unconditionally either. I am indeed sufficiently involved that you see me at the GITMO articles only making comments, not closing, or otherwise using admin powers. I've never used admin powers with respect to someone I'm involved with positively or negatively; to avoid doubt, I rarely use such powers at all except to delete unsatisfactory articles from new contributors. That's me; as for these discussions, only a very small group of people have consistently opposed the GITMO articles-and a small number defended them--there were more in the beginning, but I suppose they became tired by the repetitiveness, as usually happens here. It's quite normal that only a few people here care sufficiently about a narrow subject enough to be persistent in either direction, & is not your fault or mine. As for the article, I see you do not deny that it is not true that there are only primary sources. As for the primary source, of course official government sources contribute to notability. The previous debates have been whether inclusion of them alone is enough to show notability, and I think the conclusions was it depends upon the authoritative nature of the source and what it says. I agree many AfD discussions where the DoD document has been the only source have been held to not provide sufficient evidence for notability. As for what is included in the second source, , anyone who wants to check what is said can read the actual source, [1]. And anyone can check what you deleted at edit [2] -- 3 paragraphs about the man. They don't have to judge by our argument, nor should they. DGG ( talk ) 15:43, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WRT: "As for the primary source, of course official government sources contribute to notability." That's incorrect WP:BASIC: "Primary sources may be used to support content in an article, but they do not contribute toward proving the notability of a subject."
WRT: "The previous debates have been whether inclusion of them alone is enough to show notability" I have never doubt that there are only primary sources. There are two secondary sources but they do not satisfy WP:GNG.
WRT: "They don't have to judge by our argument, nor should they." All information concerning the subject of this BLP from that source has been included in the article. This article together with the other secondary source that simply mention his name does not provide enough information about the subject to establish notability WP:GNG, they do not provide enough information on the subject and these sources are not enough to write an BLP under our rules for BLP's and WP:GNG. Almost all information in the article now are based on the interpretation of primary sources in violation of WP:BLPPRIMARY. IQinn (talk) 16:12, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Courcelles 15:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tridib Mitra[edit]

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Long-term unreferenced biography of a living person. No reliable third party sources found. Only ref recently added is not a WP:RS. Notability concerns (notability self-asserted). Article promotional in tone having been largely edited by an editor with a possible conflict of interest. Plad2 (talk) 23:38, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:47, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NCI Froward Point[edit]

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One of a number of lookout posts that doesn't appear to have a particularly notable existence, other than being remotely involved in various minor incidents ninety:one 22:53, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • It is behind a paywall, but at "0.15 pages" long, it is unlikely to be "significant coverage" -- and no, Yachting & Boating World is not "national coverage". Likewise being a single stop on a TV programme about a walking tour is not "significant coverage" of the geographical feature, let alone the NCI Lookout Station there. And no this is NOT about "writing style" -- it is about CONTENT & sourcing. "Bare mention"=trivial coverage (as WP:N defines that term). HrafnTalkStalk(P) 12:19, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • The article continues to be "strung together from a series of bare, in-passing, mentions". Is there even a single cited source that gives the subject more than a single sentence? Maybe, but if there is it's well hidden among the remainder of trivial mentions. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 05:13, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (after edit conflict) All the article has to do is to assert notability, and then verify that notability. An item can be notable in one single sentence or in a paragraph. The notability is well asserted. The location is a busy location and many marine sources refer to it. It is newsworthy and attracts local news of all flavours, ranging from charitable events to support it to incidents recorded by the MCA and the RNLI. It does that in spades. If you want flowing and gushing prose then Wikipedia is not that vehicle when the article is short. Almost all short articles are bare bones articles constructed of verifiable facts. Many of them don't even trouble to verify the facts they state. Now I have presented you with a short article containing: incidents that were life threatening (you seem to require life threatening incidents for notability, but those are absolutely not the be all and end all of notability); the history of the station; news of local charitable works to support the station; minutes of the local parish assembly meeting discussing the station; the real time weather station for the benefit of local seafarers; the fact that it is a notable landmark on the South West Coast Path and so much else besides. It seems to me that you want it to be involved in a drugs bust, or need a shipwreck on the rocks below it for it to become, in your view, notable. This is a simple notable local resource whose existence and notability are both present, asserted and verified. Now that is as good as it gets for pretty much any Wikipedia article. Now, frankly, I no longer care. I've done enough in any normal circumstance to secure this article its place in WIkipedia and you can argue as long as you like for its deletion. You may even be successful in getting it deleted by your rhetoric against it. You may end up feeling great satisfaction by arguing strongly for deletion, and joy should it go. And, by doing so, you will create a climate where no-one puts other notable articles of this nature here. And you may rejoice at that because you have created what you believe to be a better Wikipedia. But you are wrong. Never mind. The same article appears at Ship Spotting World where it has existed simultaneously. [irony]It will obviously make wikipedia better to remove it from here[/irony]. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 06:16, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would say that 10 facts from 10 individual sources have the same depth of coverage as 10 facts from a single source. Mathematically and semantically they are identical. Articles are made from individual facts, and Wikipedia discourages using a single source. It is more convenient for the editor when all the facts can be garnered from an existing news article or existing encyclopedia, but an article is measured by how many facts there are, and each one should have a source. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 06:03, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • WP:NOTE: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article or stand-alone list." "Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material." "Examples: The 360-page book by Sobel and the 528-page book by Black on IBM are plainly non-trivial. The one sentence mention by Walker of the band Three Blind Mice in a biography of Bill Clinton (Martin Walker (1992-01-06). "Tough love child of Kennedy". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1240962,00.html. ) is plainly trivial." [emphasis mine] From this it is clear that "one sentence mention"s are not "significant coverage". The difference between "10 facts from 10 individual sources" and "10 facts from a single source" is (i) that the latter is more likely to provide depth of coverage than the former (ii) that the former provides no indication as to relative importance of the facts (so no ability to give appropriate WP:WEIGHT) & (iii) that the former is likely to be a WP:INDISCRIMINATE collection of facts. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 07:21, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia defines WP:INDISCRIMINATE topics as
  1. Plot-only description of fictional works
  2. Lyrics databases
  3. News reports
  4. Who's who
  5. FAQs
I don't see the article as being anything like any of the things listed here. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 07:27, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
[1] WP:INDISCRIMINATE (i) states in its section title that "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information", (ii) states that "As explained in the policy introduction, merely being true, or even verifiable, does not automatically make something suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia." & (iii) Provides the above list of examples, with no indication that the list is meant to be exhaustive. [2] I see that you have failed to address either: the explicit wording of WP:NOTE; or my points (i) & (ii), in my immediately previous post. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 08:45, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
[irony]All very interesting and very amusing[/irony], none of which explains your one editor crusade against this article. I expect you have your reasons, but it is just looking rather like a sordid little battle right now, and wholly disproportionate. Sledgehammers and nuts come to mind. You've made some sort of point or other. A load of wikilawyering, and a load of points scoring, none of which are anywhere near the target, that's all that can be seen here. So, just to be clear and to get back to the point, notability is asserted in the article. It is verified in the citations, it's as plain as a pikestaff. It just looks as though this lookout tripped you over one day when you went for a walk and you want your revenge on it. Arguably your comments have produced a better article because it now has substantially better references than it had before, but that is at the expense of my becoming more than a little disenchanted with the attitude you are displaying here. It really doesn't matter how often you state that white is black, it remains white for all to see.
You have obvious energies. Why not devote them to something more productive that merits your attention. This crusade against this one small article isn't going to improve Wikipedia, you know. All it's doing is making me wonder what your underlying motivation is.The picture I have of you in my mind after this set of harangues is not, I think, the one you would wish me to have. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 09:55, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"One editor crusade"? ROFLMAO! Have a WP:TROUT & get a clue. I have spent less space on this AfD than you have. So who is 'crusading'> Stating how WP:NOTE explicitly defines "significant coverage" and "trivial mention" IS NOT "a load of wikilawyering".

"So, just to be clear[obfuscate] and to get back to the point [ignore policies and guidelines]..." ... [bunch of argument by assertion & argumentum ad nauseum that turns WP:Notability & WP:INDISCRIMINATE on their heads]. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 10:30, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that reinforced my view. Well done. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 12:02, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conduct? What an interesting stiletto point you deploy? Fiddle Faddle (talk) 20:16, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 07:01, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anne Marie Ballowe Dawson-White[edit]

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Well sourced, but ultimately notable for only one event, appearing on an MTV special, and even then not very notable in that itself. Sven Manguard Wha? 07:20, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Never heard of her. Not notable person. --Manway (talk) 07:26, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
With respects, not having heard of her is not really a suitable argument for deletion. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 11:11, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Schmidt. You're absolutely right. That is not a good criteria. I took the liberty of Googling "Anne Marie Ballowe" (without the quotes) and the first page results are as follows:

mylife.com imdb.com facebook.com latimes.com (photo only) myspace.com askville.amazon.com wikipedia.org 123people.com whosdatedwho.com

I thought it might have been a fluke. SO I went to the second page:

wikipedia.org ebay.com ebay.com blogs.salon.com mcomet.com mylovelykia.blogspot.com kosmix.com wapedia.mobi wikipedia.org evri.com

Don't see anything reliable there. But I learned a lot about pornographic actresses. --Manway (talk) 15:22, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
More than you wanted too, quite likely. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 03:38, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep. Close forthwith. Whether -you- haven't heard of her isn't a jot of difference. It's whether her WP:NOTABLEness is established from WP:RS, and it is everywhere from the LA Times to Shelley Lubben's Pink Cross Foundation to AVN to MTV to Luke Ford to IAFD and on and on. Is it not notable for someone to be assjammed 50 times in a row by a lineup of guys in succession and to be at the centre of an HIV scare that chilled the entire US porn "industry"? Grace Quek and Jasmine St Clair suckfucked their way to high notability in similar fashion. Add to the previous her -196- credited appearances in commercial film and video including one release where her name stars in the title. Because there's CLEARLY MULTIPLE and RELIABLE sources for the notability as is also patently evident from googlesearch of either her current or performing name then this should be closed forthwith as illconsidered WP:SNOWBALL not worth the distraction to further consider. So I'll call for admin ruling on that at this juncture already.Thoroughgoodness (talk) 08:11, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yes you'll also notice she's already accepted in 6 foreign language versions of wikipedia as sufficiently notable. So where her entire body of work, her language of education/discourse and the official language of her primary nationality is English, it begs a rather bizarre question to propose that en-Wikipedia's the only one of the seven languages in which she can't meet the notability test.Thoroughgoodness (talk) 08:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, that she was accepted by other languages is not indicative of anything. For all I know, the articles there are just deserving of deletion. Second this plays into a longstanding problem in deletion discussions, I'll sum it up below:
Sources must demonstrate the notability of the subjects they cover. The simple presence of sources has no bearing on notability.
This is something that lots of people miss. For example, the LA Times article mentioned this person in passing, the focus of the article was on the industry. That's not a good source. Then there are facebook and youtube, those are never good sources. A few porn blog or two that have no editorial review, again, not sources. The simple fact here is that the sources that exist suck, and there are no replacements. Sven Manguard Wha? 19:21, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Reference #2 did not mention her in passing. The LA Times conducted an audio interview with her to go along with their 'See No Evil' story.--TQ (talk) 00:37, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Her notoriety is not "one event" & is bigger and broader than what you state. It's that of:
  • A porn actress infected on the job making her a newsworthy person in the adult and broader press at the time of the '98 HIV outbreak pinned on Mark Wallice. She really should be at least as notable as him, considering all that may be asserted regarding either of them. His career was longer and he was a director which she was not, but he disappeared from sight in a way that she declined to
  • Someone who has joined forces with the notable Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation, insofar as telling her story through them. It does add just a little notability when someone comes out in public and effectively rolls over on their former lifestyle, associates, ideology, perspectives, etc. Michelle Avanti, Nadia Styles and Linda Lovelace did similar.
  • A former porn actress who has publicised her own religious conversion. A la Linda Lovelace and Ms Lubben and a little similar to Larry Flynt.
  • A person with a key featuring role in an MTV documentary of note.
  • Seven years as a credited performer in adult film, including at least one release titled after her performance name (Violation of Brooke Ashley). 7 years and close to 200 releases really is veteranhood and longevity as far as porn careers go.
  • The owner of notoriety for a world first sex act ie. being the 1 in a 50-on-1 anal gangbang. Re this also the filming of it achieves special notoriety in adult film and for her as the star and title performer. The seminal character of her contribution to that cinematic subgenre is further enforced by the rather unique circumstances of her later comeback as an acknowledged HIV+ hardcore performer in a commercial release garnering more-than-usual publicity heat.
  • The legal notability of her successful case for workers compensation. This may have ramifications in the future for health and safety measures in that line of work and for the perception of the relationship between the workers and the commissioners of their work (ie. they are employees, not 'independent contractors'). The case was at least an appeal and probably one at a high level because of the length of time until it finally resolved.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.8.119.107 (talkcontribs) 02:50, December 7, 2010


Well... as porn is such a controversial field, perhaps best to simply consider her as a prolific actress who happens to be in the porn genre. Ignoring her long career and concentrating on one event in that career, is akin to ignoring Rock Hudson's long career in film and claiming his own contracted illness as a one event. Of course, that stretches a bit, as Rock was mianstream and had mainstream coverage. What kind of coverage did/does this person have in sources considered reliable for her genre? And ignoring the genre, does she have enough coverage meet the WP:GNG? And if so, is the coverage to be ignored because it is pertinant only to that genre? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 21:48, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Courcelles 00:19, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Connors–Lendl rivalry[edit]

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It is just a repository of results. Armbrust Talk Contribs 01:12, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 07:01, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Clijsters – V. Williams rivalry[edit]

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It is just a repository of results. Armbrust Talk Contribs 01:12, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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Delete per nom. DARTH SIDIOUS 2 (Contact) 15:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus. Courcelles 00:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Davenport–Hingis rivalry[edit]

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It is just a repository of results and is unsourced. Armbrust Talk Contribs 01:11, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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The result was delete. Courcelles 15:01, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Paul J Maher[edit]

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Does not appear to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Scant evidence of coverage in independent reliable sources. PinkBull 22:24, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was speedy delete. LFaraone 03:51, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your Limit is home[edit]

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Non-notable book by (now deleted) non-notable author. Rodhullandemu 22:22, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It does come up now - with an apparent publicity campaign starting in blogspot and such. Not that there's anything wrong with that - that's how you can get sales. But not on Wikipedia. That's not what we are about. Peridon (talk) 21:08, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Courcelles 15:01, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bangs (rapper)[edit]

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Other than the one reference currently in the article, I can't find any other reliable sources on this musician. As such, I can't find any evidence subject meets either the general notability guidelines or the notability guidelines for musicians. Unless further source can verify notability, article should be deleted. Qwyrxian (talk) 22:15, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And now that I notice that this article was previously deleted in February 2010 for the same reasons, other than the 1 additional source, it seems even more apparent that this should be deleted. As mentioned there, it may be that in the future subject qualifies, but not currently. Qwyrxian (talk) 22:17, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Courcelles 15:01, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Margarita O'Byrne Curtis[edit]

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Lack of notability: refs are her page at the school and a brief mention in a short article in a college magazine. JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 21:58, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus. However, anyone considering renomination should consider if WP:HEY applies. Courcelles 15:03, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Whetumarama Wereta[edit]

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Delete. Non-notable person -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 20:56, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • I added some content and sources. She seems to be a fairly active and respected Maori representative in NZ affairs. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sh*t. I saw the name written "Whetu Marama Wereta" a few places, but a search on that term (in quotes) does not show up much. It did not once occur to me to try "Whetu Werata". More to be added... Clearly notable. Keep. Aymatth2 (talk) 03:18, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Courcelles 00:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not Another Not Another Movie[edit]

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Fairly sure this is a well executed hoax Jac16888Talk 20:50, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • I did take a look around, all of those references are based on a non existent hollywood reporter page, having a imdb page proves diddly squat and the "homepage", has very little evidence this is real. The contact details are the same as ones of the company that apparently designed the website, and the production companies it lists are "Instinct productions", the only company i can find with that name is a music company, and I can find no mention of Color green films. Add to this that the page was created by a now blocked sockpuppet--Jac16888Talk 03:16, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - This horse is both dead and moot. The horse is dead because eonline, TV Guide, Le Journal de Québec and others report it exists. For our purposes, it exists unless reliable sources say otherwise. It's a moot point, though, as his recommendation is delete, as is mine. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:48, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 04:29, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Razhel Gee Mengullo[edit]

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This article is on a non-notable junior karate competitor. I can't access the references from the local paper (which is still insufficient to show WP:N) and the other references either don't mention her or fail to show notability. This article was deleted at AfD last year (as Razhel Mengullo) and then recreated under its current name. It survived another AfD nomination as a "no consensus" because of a number of "keep" votes from people associated with her school. Papaursa (talk) 20:33, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. Notable karatedo practitioner in the country. Won many major tournaments including Philippine Olympic Festival and Philippine Karatedo Federation National Open, the highest karatedo competition in the country.jjska®ate 空手|道® 01:24, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Were these senior competitions or did she win junior age division titles? The Olympic Festival is not the same as tryouts for the Olympic team, correct? Papaursa (talk) 01:37, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Athletes are not born professional; others maybe gifted but some are made champions step by step due to constant training and discipline.jjska®ate 空手|道® 02:14, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: It would be very unfair in wikipedia if it will only recognized professional athletes and olympic sportsmen. We should also consider the performance or level of competition of every athletes. Professional or not; olympic sports or non-olympic sport event. There are number of athletes that are performing well from school base, regional up to national level tournament. National tournament of USA would be very far behind compared to any "3rd World Countries" national games.DamakDamak (talk) 04:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep - Meets guidelines for notability by participating and won medals in the national level competitions. Accomplished athlete in her early age. Very promising fighter, we should give credit for her achievements.1 Hoy! Pinoy ako. 01:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Sufficient in form and in substance. Clearly a notable karate practitioner and a national champion.DamakDamak (talk) 08:33, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I am not convinced that the competitions that she won are sufficient to establish notability. That she is now a freshman at university, all these competitions must be junior age tournaments. I counsel the closing admin to look over the edit histories of all the participants of this AFD. jmcw (talk) 11:28, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • From this reference[8], in 2009 she was competing in the 10 to 11 year old girls kumite. Not notable for Wikipedia: please keep to the school blog. jmcw (talk) 13:06, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Note: High school and pre-high school athletes are notable if they have received, as individuals, substantial and prolonged coverage that is (1) independent of the subject and (2) clearly goes beyond WP:ROUTINE coverage.jjska®ate 空手|道® 01:07, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • WP:ATH says "Sports figures are presumed notable if they have participated in a major international amateur or professional competition at the highest level such as the Olympics." It also says "local coverage in both news sources and sports specific publications" are excluded because that coverage is considered routine. Papaursa (talk) 01:33, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Suggestion: move to WikiPilipinas.[9] jmcw (talk) 15:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Keep seems notable and the subject is leading to a potential article. Winning in the national level championship is also an advantage to show notability. PulisPatola (talk) 02:30, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • For now, karate is not an olympic sporting event and there are numbers of major karate competitions climbing up in the national level is already far an achievement. National winner athletes deserved notability. 1 Hoy! Pinoy ako. 00:53, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Read the guideline -- "major international amateur or professional competition at the highest level" -- "national level" competitions are clearly not applicable. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 02:27, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Subject clearly fails WP:ATH. I also looked at her education awards and the references are 50 page lists of names--hardly exceptional or unique. The editor who said this is "leading to a potential article" might want to look at WP:CRYSTAL. 131.118.229.17 (talk) 16:37, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • What I'm trying to emphasized is that, the article is gaining credits to pass the standard of wikipedia based on the achievements of the athlete in the national arena.PulisPatola (talk) 08:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That's the point--if you're notable you can have an article, the criteria is not that you might be notable someday. Astudent0 (talk) 14:36, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Its notable enough to get ample coverage in the news. This is apparently something major in that country. And this is a national competition. We're not talking about local small town papers listing who won the T-ball tournament. Dream Focus 21:38, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Philipines have 4 cities with populations of over a million, but the only sources are from a local paper? Logically that means either the event isn't "major in that country" or there are so many divisions they couldn't list all the winners. Either way I don't see the notability or how she passes WP:ATH. 131.118.229.17 (talk) 23:28, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • The population in the Philippines today is more than 90 millions with 7100+ islands and to be included and won in the national level competition really speaks of a very satisfactory performance. PKF National Open Championship is a major event of karatedo in the country.1 Hoy! Pinoy ako. 00:39, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Neither underbelts nor juniors are usually considered notable and she's both. When she successfully competes at the highest level (which means nationally and internationally as an adult blackbelt), then she deserves an article. Astudent0 (talk) 14:36, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The country is divided in 3 areas, the Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. To be chosen in hundreds of sports athletes to be the "teamplate holder" of Visayas Delegation really an advantage compared to other athletes joining the Philippine Olympic Festival, a major national competition. 1 Hoy! Pinoy ako. 01:15, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Subject clearly meets WP:ATH by winning several national tournaments in her country.122.55.22.253 (talk) 03:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong and Speedy Keep. A three-time national winner is definitely notable. This article stayed in wikipedia for more than a year and for sure it won't last a week or two if it doesn't pass the notability. We're talking about national champion athlete here and not an intramural MVP.空手道® "avec les mains ou les pieds" 06:34, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, many articles are tagged for questionable notability for years and we're talking about a junior age group underbelt competitor here, not a champion who defeated all comers regardless of rank or age. Jakejr (talk) 00:24, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I notice that almost all of the keep votes are either new editors or connected with her karate school (JJS).
  • Delete I looked at the dates and pictures in her article. Her first "championship" was in 2006 when she was about 8 competing with orange and green belts (i.e., beginners). I see no way that winning an 8 year old beginners division makes you worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. I see nothing that shows she meets the standards of WP:ATH--competing at the top level. Astudent0 (talk) 14:36, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The biggest issue isn't sourcing, it's notability. Can you show how she meets WP:ATH (competing at the highest level) by winning child underbelt divisions? Papaursa (talk) 13:33, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Does not appear to satisfy notability requirements. I attempted to access all 22 on-line references listed in the article (there is also one printed reference that I do not have access to). Regrettably, most of them appear to be unavailable for technical reasons, but the ones that were accessible only mention the subject in a passing manner or do not mention her at all. Looking at the actual article names of the references, this is the only one that appears to be specifically on the subject (and it is currently returning a 404 error). It would seem that almost all of the references provided do not focus on the subject herself, but I stand open to correction if the sources do become available again and prove otherwise. Turning to the article itself, I do not see anything there that indicates the subject is notable within the context of martial arts articles on Wikipedia. Incidentally, I notice that this appears to be the second nomination for deletion of this article; for those who are interested, here is the discussion on the first one: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Razhel Gee Mengullo (July/August 2009). Janggeom (talk) 13:05, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Following the nominator's introductory comments, here is the other earlier discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Razhel Mengullo (January 2009). Janggeom (talk) 13:18, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This might also be of relevance or assistance in this discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mengullo, Randy (February 2009). Janggeom (talk) 13:28, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Subject does not meet the notability requirements in WP:ATH. I don't know how much precedent and consistency matter on WP, but I did see that the articles on both the World and European Junior Judo Championships were recently deleted at AfD, and if those don't meet notability standards because they're junior events, I see no way that local or even national junior underbelt events or competitors are notable. If this article is deleted, I also recommend (like so many did at that the previous nomination) that the closing administrator Salt it before it comes back as "Razhel G. Mengullo" or some other variation. Jakejr (talk) 13:34, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Clearly this person has not participated in major senior competitions of the kind set out in WP:ATH#Generally accepted standards. DreamFocus's is the only keep vote that seems to get anywhere near the mark here, by referring the sources and a potential WP:GNG claim. However given the raft of deadlinks that constitute references to the article, it is very difficult to assess. I agree with Janggeom that the titles of the articles tend to give away the fact that the sources do not devote significant coverage to the subject of the article. --Mkativerata (talk) 02:52, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Well too damn bad. Wikipedia failed to do its job, in fact the time it took Wikipedia to respond to these comments and delete the page they could have realized the www.hornet.org archive was mentioned and cited several times in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_Line_(magazine) Oh, is this an online published magazine? Why yes it is. Does it mention hornet? This is only one of many that do. http://staticline.theblob.org/ftp/issues/sl-001.txt Static_LiNe is no different than a Gawker media website, except its all written words. There were paid sponsors, authors with college degrees, even advertisements. A MAGAZINE, that we can cite Hornet all day with. Now if wikipedia wants to do its job, and unviolate itself, it would be wise to put the hornet page back online. I do apologize the citing wasnt done earlier, but we'll be happy to oblige now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cleverwisdom (talkcontribs) 05:38, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]


I would like to agree with and second Cleverwisdom's motion to have the Hornet Archive's page reinstated. Static Line (the source at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_Line_(magazine)) includes a reference to a dead page link for Hornet Archive. Please bring this page back. R3cgm (talk) 02:47, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Posted the pages text here for posterity:

I am posting text here for posterity. Perhaps an article on Scene.org would be better? Circa 1999 it was very well known, at least on the Internet.

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20060913000000/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet_Archive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet_Archive

The Hornet Archive was a file repository for releases and resources from the worldwide PC Demoscene. It was the first major demo archive on the Internet, as opposed to the popular BBS archives of the time. The archive hosted over 16 thousand files totalling over 7GB. Files were split into various categories: demos, Tracker music, graphics, code, info, Diskmags, and Demoparty releases. The files dated as early as 1987 and as recent as 1998, meaning most were intended for the DOS platform. The archive opened on September_4, 1992, as the "Internet Demo Site", at ftp.uwp.edu, located at the University_of_Wisconsin-Parkside in the United_States. In 1994, it moved to the University_of_Florida, on the FTP server hornet.eng.ufl.edu, which gave the archive its name. Soon the archive outgrew its second home and moved to ftp.cdrom.com, the largest FTP server of the time, hosted by Walnut_Creek_CDROM. A web site with search capability was added in 1996. The Hornet Archive officially closed on September_22, 1998, as its founders lost interest in maintaining the site. The Scene.org site took over as the primary file archive of the PC demoscene. In 2002, the Hornet Archive files and main web page were permanently moved to scene.org. The Hornet Archive was maintained by a Demo_group also named Hornet, which still exists and has included Andy "Phoenix" Voss, Dan Wright, Jim "Trixter" Leonard, Brett "GD" Neely, Pim "Stony" van Mun, and Christopher "r3cgm" (aka "Snowman") Mann. The group is known better for their general support of the demoscene than for their releases.

==DemoNews== Since its inception, the Hornet Archive had its own Text_file newsletter, called DemoNews. A total of 150 issues were made, from September_24, 1992 to February_4, 1998. At its peak, DemoNews had over 2500 subscribers on its email list. At first, it was primarily a listing of new files on the archive, and the status of the FTP site. By late 1994, it expanded into a full E-zine on the demo scene, with interviews, demo/music reviews, and party reports. In 1995, DemoNews introduced a rating system for every release uploaded to the Hornet Archive, ranging from 1 to 5 stars with half-steps (e.g., "***" = 3/5, "****+" = 4.5/5). These ratings were taken seriously by the scene as a guide of what was or was not worth getting. The growing tracker music scene spun off its own e-zine, TraxWeekly, as a companion to DemoNews in 1995. ==Music Contest== Hornet held an annual tracker music competition every year from 1994 to 1998, simply called Music Contest. Only MOD, S3M, XM, and IT module files were accepted. Snowman started the competition in 1993 on a BBS, before he joined Hornet, for those in the scene who could not attend the scarce number of demo parties at the time. By Music Contest 3 in 1995, the competition had become fully Internet-based and fully supported by Hornet, with an invitation intro and results pack. MC2 split the contest into rookie and veteran divisions, and MC5 introduced a third intermediate division. The contest's popularity grew from its reputation as a fair, complete competition, with scores broken down by originality, form, technicality, and samples. Experienced tracker musicians were recruited as judges, and gave written feedback on every entry. Modest prizes were given to the top winners. Music Contest 6 had 385 entries, from all over the world, nearly evenly split between the three skill divisions.

CD-ROM and DVD compilations[edit]

===Hornet CD-ROMs=== Two of the earliest CD-ROM compilations for the PC demo scene came from the Hornet Archive, specifically, Dan Wright, who compiled the Escape CD-ROM in 1994. Five hundred copies of Escape were pressed in six months and two runs. The first edition, released in November, sold for $9 and came in a jewel case with artwork done by various scene artists. The final edition sold for $5 and came in a plastic viewpak with new art. The CD was mixed mode, combining files from Hornet and BBSes with scene music, mostly from Music Contest 2. With Snowman aboard, Dan had help producing the followup double CD compilation, entitled Freedom. It was released in October 1995, and all 800 copies sold out within three months. The $12 compilation put data on one disc and audio (mostly from Music Contest 3 this time) on the other. Again, Pim "Stony" van Mun and various other scene artists were recruited for disk art, as well as vinyl stickers. When Walnut Creek CDROM hosted the Hornet Archive and employed Snowman, it was only natural that they publish the next CD compilation. Hornet Underground, released in June 1996, was strictly a compilation of demos from the archive. It lost its scene flair, with artwork done in-house, but received much better distribution through Walnut Creek. Hornet Underground Volume 2 followed in August 1997, with new art matching other Walnut Creek products, and a new interface. Demand for scene tracker music was high enough that Hornet convinced Walnut Creek to release a music compilation from the archive as well. Hornet MODs Volume 1 was released in July 1997, followed by Volume 2 in October. Each contained well over 1000 music files. Volume 2 also included an audio disc, featuring tracks from Music Contests 4 and 5, thus continuing the tradition of Escape and Freedom. After the archive closed in 1998, several Hornet members contributed to an independent compilation of releases and media from the NAID demo party, entitled NAIDorabilia and released in early 1999. Only 100 discs were produced before the disc files went public domain in 2004.

===MindCandy=== After compiling files on disc, Hornet became more interested in recording demos to video on disc. In 2000, plans were drafted for a "Demo VideoCD", quickly changing into the "DemoDVD Project", announced in 2001. The group compiled 42 PC demos in all, dating from 1990-2001, on a double-sided DVD entitled MindCandy Volume 1: PC Demos, released in December 2002. The DVD's appeal was enhanced by audio commentary on each demo, production notes, and a featurette about the demoscene in general. MindCandy became Hornet's most successful disc project, with 6000 copies of Volume 1 sold by 2006. MindCandy Volume 2: Amiga Demos, covering the Amiga demo scene from 1989-2004, is planned for release in 2006. ==External link== *The Hornet Archive (hosted by scene.org) Category:Demoscene Category:Defunct_websites Category:1992_establishments Family Guy Guy (talk) 19:51, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]