Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oļegs Latiševs

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The result was Keep. There is a clear consensus that being an Olympic referee multiple times indicates notability. (non-admin closure) ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 18:25, 29 August 2016 (UTC)}}[reply]

Oļegs Latiševs[edit]

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Referees are not notable by default and not covered by WP:SPORTBIO (which if one looks in the archive specifically discussed and decided not to include referees). They have to meet WP:BIO, and I do not see how this one does it. He has no sport career, did not win any awards, nor attracted any in-depth coverage. He is just a referee doing his job, nothing to make him encyclopedic. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

keep an Olympic referee "doing his job" twice in a row (2012, 2016) is of comparable notability to an Olympic sportsman, just doing his job too. The name is linked from quite a few wikipedia articles, and surely the info about this person is of interest to readers. And IMO 98% of sportsmen in wikipedia don't have "in-depth" coverage, just played here and there, scored so many goals, etc., mostly sourced to sports stats websites. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:47, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:36, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:36, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Latvia-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:36, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Twice selected as a referee for the FIBA Basketball World Cup, twice selected as a referee for the Olympics, and a leading figure in his home country's basketball scene. You can't get much higher than that; it might be a stretch to say that getting picked for a major international competition meets the ANYBIO standard of "a well-known and significant award or honor", but getting picked four times for major international competitions is definitely a well-known and significant honor. Yes, he's just doing his job, but leading figures in the sport have assigned his job to include some of the top positions that can be held by basketball referees. We consider it possible for someone to be notable because of his work as a basketball referee because of coverage for what he's done as a basketball referee (i.e. we're not excluding basketball referees by policy), as opposed to an already-notable person who got into basketball refereeing later, so why would we exclude one of the world's top referees? Nyttend (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Thank you Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus so much for your point of view! I hope this discussion will help to improve WP:SPORTBIO. Also for the reason that now there are many pages dedicated exactly to basketball referees in the space of Wikipedia. Here are just a few examples:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Lamonica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Donaghy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Holtkamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Pascual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Crawford You can also find the current List of National Basketball Association_referees in Wikipedia. Unfortunately, such list does not exist for referees FIBA Europe and Euroleague. But I think it's a matter of time. It because this information is of interest to readers and fans of basketball. Note that the pages devoted to basketball / Olympic Games and other major tournaments, mandatory have the list of referees and countries they represent. See examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_referees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics In addition, Oleg Latyshev mentioned in more than 100 Wikipedia article. And it is advisable that readers have information about this official. Plus, there are more than 20 introduce links to the page Olegs Latisevs from related articles that I made by myself, with the idea that Wikipedia content would be more correlated, as required by policy Wikipedia. And my last argument for why the article must be saved, it is a really high importance of this person in the modern national history. In particular, Latyshev is the first Basketball referee in the history of independent Latvia invited to FIBA Basketball World Cup (Turkey), 2010. Is the first Basketball referee in the history of independent Latvia invited to the Olympic Games (London), 2012. The only Basketball referee from the Northern Europe invited to FIBA Basketball World Cup (Spain) (in total, 38 referees from 28 states from five FIBA continental zones took part in this FIBA Basketball World Cup), 2014. And the only Basketball referee from the Baltic States (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) invited to the Olympic Games 2016 (Rio de Janeiro). Amatour82 (talk) 15:34, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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