Talk:Darren Sadler

Notability and Citations

Having posted the article I have noted that concerns have been raised that the “article may not meet the notability guideline for biographies” and that “article needs additional citations for verification.”. It is always valuable to get such challenges and I would like to address them in turn, starting with notability, which of course affects the very basis for the articles existence within wikipedia, and then citations.

Notability

When referring to the Athletes section of the notability guideline for biographies referred to by the notice it is said that a person is generally notable if they meet any of the following standards:

• People who have competed at the fully professional level of a sport, or a competition of equivalent standing in a non-league sport such as swimming, golf or tennis.[8]
• People who have competed at the highest amateur level of a sport, usually considered to mean the Olympic Games or World Championships.

Therefore if Darren Sadler has competed at the highest level in the sport, he would be deemed notable according to the above. Darren Sadler has on three occasions been invited to compete at the World’s Strongest Man (“WSM”) competition which is cited as the highest level of competition in strength athletics by many sources. The article itself quotes an article ‘’The Telegraph’’ to that effect, and on the WSM article page two further sources are cited, one of which is Randall J. Strossen of Ironmind, the publisher of Milo, which is one of the main publications in the field of strength athletics. A quick look in newspaper archives gives similar quotes in the The Gaurdian, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Salt Lake Tribune, The Herald-Dispatch. The Guardian in fact estimates that estimated worldwide audience of the event is 220 million (The Guardian, Saturday 31 December 2005, Give me strength).

My personal conclusion is that notability criteria has therefore been met.

Citations

Although the article already had a number of citations, more have now been added, from some of the most repsected orgaisations in strength athletics including the American Strongman Corpoartion, Ironmind, and WSM, among others.

Once again, the effect of the two notices has been to improve this article and thus they are well received.Kwib (talk) 14:09, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

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