Deletion of Luiz Palhares

Comment: The Pan-American Championship (jiu jitsu)|Pan-American Championship is a national level tournament with competitors from multiple nations. In this event Palhares has achieved gold three times, both within his age/weight division and in the absolute (open) division and therefore appears to meet #Martial artists § 4. While the nominator claims that his grade is no indication of |notability, it is considered sufficiently ''noteworthy'' of a section at List of Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners, and in contrast to the nominator's claims on the article talk page, 11 out of 15 entries at that grade have stand alone articles. Moreover, he was interviewed by Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Eastern Europe http://www.bjjee.com/interview/master-luiz-palhares-on-training-with-rickson-teaching-us-navy-seals-bjj-in-albania/ precisely because of his grade and achievements in the field of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He thus has a credible claim of notability against point 2 of  and against #Martial artists § 1. His work for the U.S. military is largely tangential to the article and I am entirely ambivalent as to whether it remains, or is removed from the body text. This page was previously speedy deleted at the request of the only significant contributor to the page; per criteria G7 of the |criteria for speedy deletion. Such deletions are in no way binding. Finally, I can't make any sense of the nominator's final sentence as the article features ''only'' external sources (outside Wikipedia) and non of them are primary sources. While the subject of the article may be |barely notable, this nomination for deletion makes no sound policy based argument for such
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MANOTE||WP:N||WP:ANYBIO||WP:MANOTE||WP:CSD||WP:BARE)

Comment: Mainly concerning .  A few points
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MANOTE)

Comment: No significant independent coverage and his martial arts achievements don't meet  or . The keep arguments are based on winning age group titles and . Special:Contributions/204.126.132.231|204.126.132.231
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NSPORTS||WP:MANOTE||WP:ILIKEIT)

Comment: The article's sources don't support notability via  because they're either listings of results or ranks, or a promotional interview for a seminar he was giving.  Even if Senior-2 level results show notability (a highly debatable point), a look at the IBJJF results would not support notability since several of his titles were "won" by being the only entrant and none of the divisions he medaled in had more than 3 competitors.  That's far from the "several dozen" threshold mentioned in the criteria and certainly argues against those titles being significant
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)