Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Marwick

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathan Marwick[edit]

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De-prodded. Notability rests on this gold medal that he won at a student Biology Olympiad, because he certainly doesn't have any other claim. Even if this is marginally notable, it looks like a textbook WP:BLP1E. Black Kite (t) (c) 10:42, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as he is only notable for one event. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 13:51, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep: Winning a Gold Medal at the International Biology Olympiad is enough in itself to satisfy notability requirements. It is analogous to WP:ATHLETE where 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. And Marwick did more than just participate - he won Gold. Inniverse (talk) 22:34, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Marwick lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. The comparison to WP:ATHLETE stated above does not make him notable. Student sports are not the top level. International Biology Olympiad is a student comp. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:20, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for {{rescue}} by the Article Rescue Squadron, with no explanation as to why this article should be rescued and how that could happen (per ARS instructions). SnottyWong ^babble 16:30, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The gold medal in the biology olympiad thing is questionable. I don't think it asserts notability, but it's arguable (although it doesn't look like any other past winners have articles). The fault in the WP:ATHLETE analogy is that I don't think that this contest represents a "major international amateur or professional competition at the highest level", seeing as how it's only open to high school students. However, even if you can prove that winning the olympiad is notable, then you're still going to get held up by WP:BLP1E. I'm amazed that the prod was removed on this one. SnottyWong ^babble 16:30, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete comparing an academic contest for kids with the Olympics is just silly, and trying to shoehorn this in under sports guidelines is simply absurd. Bottom line: fails WP:BIO, WP:N, and WP:V. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Winning a gold medal in a notable contest, makes someone notable. 70 countries are involved in this thing, they flying around the best high school students from them, to different areas to compete. Dream Focus 21:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As has been said this may not represent a majot internationla event.Slatersteven (talk) 20:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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