[WikiEN-l] Deletionism

[Andrew Gray]

On 04/01/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >It continues to worry me that we would delete an article on any Olympian.
> >
> > Oh so we're now a directory of losing athletes as well are we?
>
> This is getting a little off topic, but I'll contribute anyway. Anyone
> that qualifies for the olympics is notable for that reason alone. The
> problem with this particular case is that he didn't qualify, he got in
> on a wildcard. Basically, he reached the olympics by luck - you can't
> be notable simply by being lucky. However, it is a fairly unique case
> and got lots of press coverage, so it's notable for that reason even
> if he isn't notable for simply being an Olympian.

Of course, there's [[Eddie the Eagle]] (to keep with the E theme) who
not only didn't do anything to qualify, but made them put in the rule
that you had to actually have some previous success to become an
Olympian ;-)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk