Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Angel (poker player)

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The result was Keep (non-admin close) RMHED (talk) 19:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Angel (poker player)[edit]

unnotable poker player. No reliable sources besides a coatrack of "sources" at the bottom of article. Possible original research that would require a total rewrite to become encyclopedic. Tavix (talk) 03:19, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: No assertion of notability. Note that "he won a lot of money" is not an assertion of notability. TallNapoleon (talk) 08:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Winning two World Series of Poker (and one Super Bowl of Poker) tournaments is plenty notable, even if they were back in the '70s, when the fields were small. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:31, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Maybe he is not as big a name as fellow 70s players Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim Preston or Puggy Pearson but winning 2 bracelets certainly should be notable enough - especially winning them back in the days when there were not more than 50 events a year. And he certainly still receives coverage in the Poker media, e.g. here. There were reports he is dying and later an obituary. It should not be held against him that his big wins were in the 70s when reports on Poker where less common. Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 08:44, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clearing things up. I knew he won the WSOP bracelets but since it was back in the '70s I wasn't sure how big of an accomplishment that was. Tavix (talk) 19:05, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- Then the notability of this needs to be made clear in the article. TallNapoleon (talk) 17:57, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Per Clarityfiend, but notability needs to be made clear in the article. JoshuaD1991 (talk) 13:51, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, more than enough notability shown. Stifle (talk) 14:20, 18 August 2008 (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.