Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farshid Asadian

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The result was delete. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 02:13, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Farshid Asadian

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Contested WP:PROD - Doesn't seem to meet WP:WPMA/N with only references being results from competitions that ~~thus~~they 'did well' in. RhinosF1^(chat)_{(status)(contribs)} 22:03, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling fixed RhinosF1^(chat)_{(status)(contribs)} 22:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 22:56, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 22:56, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 22:56, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is much to question about this article, especially given its COI, SPA, and sockpuppet issues. First, I don't know what Asian Games he supposedly competed in, but they're not the ones generally recognized. The Asian Games are held every 4 years with the next one occurring in 2022, not in 2009 and 2011. They may have been junior martial arts tournaments, given he was about 15 for the first one, but they weren't the Asian Games (which do have wushu). His performance at the World Junior Wushu championships was also less than meets the eye. His two third place finishes were out of 4 competitors and he finished 8th of 10 in his other event at the 2008 tournament. At the 2010 junior championships he finished 5th of 8, 4th of 7, and 11th of 12 in his events. Coverage appears to be routine sports reporting of his results at these events. Doesn't meet WP:MANOTE or WP:GNG. Papaursa (talk) 23:55, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Papaursa, It may be best to put a COI tag on the page as well. RhinosF1^(chat)_{(status)(contribs)} 06:37, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As per Papaursa. There is just so much wrong with this article.PRehse (talk) 09:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The Asian Games which Asadian competed in was The 5th and 6th Asian Junior Wushu Championships which are held every two years and not the Asian games which are held every 4 years. the mistake was acknowledged and edited.

as Asadian's History of Wushu Career is fully displayed on the official website of Iranian Wushu federation, it is undeniable that every medal that he managed to get in the tournaments which are mentioned here are legitimate and are in fact reconginzable competitons. the external link to this page can confirm this.

Although his results in other competetion didn't "meet the eye" he still managed to achieve medals in World Wushu Junior championships and Asian Junior Wushu Championships which can't be simply ignored and overlooked because of his results in other competetions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vira.gh (talk • contribs) 17:28, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Thank you for clarifying that. No one is saying that he didn't win those medals, but that those medals don't confer notability. Junior competitions in martial arts have never been considered sufficient to show notability. Even Youth Olympic gold medalists have had their articles deleted. WP:NSPORT specifically talks about competing "at the highest level", which clearly is not any junior competition (especially when so few competitors are involved). In addition, WP:MANOTE specifically talks about success "as an adult black belt" in competitions with a large number of competitors. I don't see any notability criteria that he meets. Papaursa (talk) 14:35, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Concur with reasonings given above; the junior championships are not sufficient to generate notability. I also would like to note that the main contributor to the article has been creating a series of accounts evading a block. This isn't a reason to delete of course. --Hammersoft (talk) 01:50, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per nom and Papaursa. The photograph alone had me reaching for the COI tag. Britishfinance (talk) 22:19, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per WP:OUTCOMES, junior and master's athletes are not automatically notable. Bearian (talk) 18:35, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:ATHLETE and WP:GNG - seeing very little evidence of any significant coverage. Omni Flames (talk) 01:06, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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