Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stelios Ioannou

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) LlamaAl (talk) 00:14, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stelios Ioannou

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Notability of subject is not established. atnair (talk) 01:32, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:52, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:52, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:52, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TBrandley ^{(what's up)} 00:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Player satisfies WP:NBASKETBALL for having played in the top professional league in Greece, the Greek Basket League, which is the Greek equivalent to the National Basketball Association. Jrcla2 (talk) 04:43, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Too bad NBASKETBALL has the ambiguous "or a similar major professional sports league". I dont know the league well enough, and I dont read Greek to see if he meets GNG (I can't find sources in English). Not that it is required, but it would sway me if Greek Wikipedia had an article.—Bagumba (talk) 23:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I'll ping an editor who reads Greek to see if he can flesh out the article, but a preliminary search on Greek Google for his name and "basketball" returned gobs of GHits. The note I'll say about NBASKETBALL is that while it may be "unfortunate" that the ambiguous language exists in the standard, there really isn't much question that the top Greek league is a "similar league" as the Spanish and Italian leagues listed in the guideline (which is not true of all European leagues). Euroleague and FIBA both rank the Greek League as one of the strongest in Europe, typically higher than the Italian league in truth. Rikster2 (talk) 12:36, 3 March 2013 (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.