User talk:Minarelli

Notability of Guy martin

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Guy Martin

(question posed on User Talk:Hu#Guy_Martin, reply duplicated here)

Dont feel that i am being overly argumentative here, but why did you feel that my entry on Guy Martin needed to be deleted? Seeing as a variety of other comparable racers such as Leon Haslam and Karl Harris have entries i do not see how this article was out of place. Neither do i see, as a TT rider and participant in a variety of other races, as well as a columnist in a national motorcycle magazine, that Guy Martin is an individual not worthy of particular note. Minarelli 17 June 2007

The article did not assert his notability. Simply appearing in races is not notable enough. Did he win any important races? The article did not say so. Hu 01:37, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, personally i think you are applying your criteria of notability, not wikipedia's. Seeing as the Senior TT only has a handful of professional riders from the entire world, i would say that being a participant is enough to mark someone as suitably notable. I dont intend on rewriting the entry, but i do think it's deletion was informed more by personal opinion than enforcing wikipedia's rules. Minarelli 18 June 2007

I didn't delete it, and I don't have the power to delete it. I only nominated it. Someone more senior than I deleted it. Hu 16:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]