Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Navin Samarasinghe

Navin Samarasinghe

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Fails WP:NSPORTS. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 03:43, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 09:07, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 09:07, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

• Delete another non-notable sports player.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:56, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
  • That sounds a lot like a "it's a sports player, so, not notable" argument. I don't think that's your actual intent, but you might want to consider your phrasing in the future to avoid misunderstandings. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:10, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
• Keep. Yes, there's not much here, and yes, we do have a problem sometimes with everybody and their brother making 'sportsperson' articles on genuinely non-notable subjects. I think, however, that there is a presumption to notability here, bearing in mind the level of competition, the sport, and the region, and the argument made by @A Den Jentyl Ettien Avel Dysklyver: at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shashikala Kumarasinghe is one that I can handly support as applying to this article as well. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:10, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ShawnIsHere: Now in colors 04:00, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

• Comment (not !voting to avoid canvass) as I have been mentioned here I can confirm that this is a similar case to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shashikala Kumarasinghe.

I will go a bit further than my comments there, WP:SPORTCRIT says "The guidelines on this page are intended to reflect the fact that sports figures are likely to meet Wikipedia's basic standards of inclusion if they have, for example, participated in a major international amateur or professional competition at the highest level (such as the Olympics)." this is a reference to NSPORT.

Therefore in my view, anyone who has completed at a pan-national contest such as the Asian Games is likely to be notable. In this example the subject competed there twice, and was an 8 times national champion. It is clear to me that the spirit of NSPORT says this sportsperson is notable, despite there not being a specific NSPORT mention of this sport.

I suppose it is vaguely similar to tennis, but if this was a tennis player there would be no question of him meeting NSPORT.

It would seem extremely unlikely that someone with unfettered access to Sri Lankan sources and knowing their language would not be able to easily find sources on a 8 times national champion, twice representing the country at a major pan-national event. Which is really why we have NSPORT in the first place. Dysklyver 10:07, 6 November 2017 (UTC)