Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Giarratano

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The result was delete. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 18:19, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Giarratano[edit]

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Subject has questionable notability, no Google news hits on subject, cited sources are vague, article may have been created by subject Jweiss11 (talk) 05:03, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Joe Giarratano is well known in the US professional taekwondo circuit but there isn't much online coverage of the sport to cite more accurately — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.186.15.14 (talk) 17:11, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 19:23, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete My search found nothing to show he meets any of the notability criteria--either WP:GNG or WP:MANOTE. The article doesn't show notability and the sources are weak. The above keep vote was by an SPA and smacks of WP:ILIKEIT. Papaursa (talk) 17:47, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I found no evidence he is an "international competitor". I didn't find him mentioned at the USA Taekwondo website, even when I searched the hundreds of pages of results. Being a state champion, which is not even verified by reliable sources, is not sufficient to show notability and I don't see notability for anything else. Astudent0 (talk) 12:51, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I couldn't find evidence that he was a state champion, much less an international competitor. The article doesn't have any supported claims of notability and lacks good sources. Actually, I'm not sure there are any claims of notability, supported or otherwise. 131.118.229.18 (talk) 17:00, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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