Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary McFeeders

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The result was delete, if you are able to provide a reliable source for this article, then you are free to recreate the article. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 16:26, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Gary McFeeders

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Seems like a vanity articles. It provides three references, but none suffices to confer notability: one is his own website, one is of a Christian stunt riding group of which he is a part, and one is a tae kwon do website. This last one may seem to demonstrate notability (it's used to prove that he was an Olympic medallist), but please note that there were no Olympic Games in either 1986 or 1993, so he can't be an Olympic medallist. Nyttend (talk) 14:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - I was attempting to coach this editor with this article, but the article never really improved. I declined the Speedy on it originally, because of the Olympic medal claim, but as pointed out in the nom, Tae Kwon Do was not in the Olympics until 2000. I was giving him a week to improve it, or I would nominate it for AFD myself, which was 5 days ago. Now, he has another 5 days to improve it before it gets deleted. I'm okay with that. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 15:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
• Comment - The article states 1986 Olympics. That wasn't an Olympic year. But that although Tae Kwon Do was not an official medal sport until 2000, it was an Olympic demonstration sport for the 1988 and 1992 games. Being a demo sport was part of the path taken to becoming an official Olympic sport. -- Whpq (talk) 11:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - the article is spammy, and the claim for notability, an Olympic medal appears to fail verifiability. As I stated in my earlier comment, 1986 was not an Olympic year. Assuming that was a typo, then he might plausibly have won a medal when Tae Kwon Do was a demo sport. Checking Taekwondo at the 1988 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 1992 Summer Olympics, I cannot find him in the draw much less in a medal position. I realize that wiki articles aren't reliable sources, but I suspect these are probably okay, and I'm open to be being shown reliable sources supporting the medal assertion if the wiki articles actually are wrong. -- Whpq (talk) 11:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

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