Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zoran Lazetich

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The result was delete. Consensus is that article fails the notability guidelines. Davewild (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Zoran Lazetich[edit]

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Not notable SyG (talk) 09:12, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per the arguments at Wikipedia talk:CHESS#Notable?. The situation is quite similar to that we saw in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pete Karagianis. Lazetich's rating is that of a strong expert, but some hundred points below the IM strength or national champion level where we start considering a player notable enough on strength. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails to meet notability criteria. Bubba73 ^{(the argument clinic)}, 04:31, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: not notable enough. --MrsHudson (talk) 05:04, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As I said at Wikipedia talk:CHESS#Notable?, we have deleted as non-notable at least two people with the FIDE Master title (Charles Weldon and Boris Baczynskyj (sp.?)), and Lazetich doesn't even have that. Although USCF has awarded him the Life Master title, his current FIDE rating is indicated as being below 2200 (the minimum for National Master level), giving him a ranking (among the small minority of players who have FIDE ratings) of only number 26,901 in the world (to verify this, click on the external link at the bottom of the article). His FIDE rating progress chart shows that his peak rating, in January 2000, was only 2217. There's no indication that he's ever written anything. His tournament results (Connecticut State Champion once, and Sacramento City Champion several times) are only mildly impressive, and there's no indication that any of his students have become grandmasters or anything like that. He appears to be no more notable than Pete Karagianis, who was just deleted by unanimous vote. (I realize it's not a "vote" technically, but you know what I mean.) Karagianis had been Iowa State Champion a couple of times and had written some articles. The notability of someone like Viktors Pupols is questionable to my mind, but at least Pupols once beat Bobby Fischer, beat Yasser Seirawan many times (including, I believe, after Seirawan became a grandmaster), and Larry Parr wrote a book about Pupols. The article indicates nothing notable about Lazetich. Krakatoa (talk) 07:39, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not a strong enough player to be notable on strength alone, and nothing else in the article to suggest notability on other grounds Fletch79 (talk) 22:16, 23 November 2009 (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.