Deletion of Stephen Koch

Comment: Despite the disruption behind the article, the subject does meet . The article itself is riddled with self-published sources and deadlinks and needs to be rewritten, but there is an in depth in Sports Illustrated http://www.si.com/vault/2003/03/17/339763/the-everest-ride-stephen-koch-will-soon-attempt-to-snowboard-off-the-roof-of-the-world-surely-he-believes-the-world-will-notice and Outside https://www.outsideonline.com/1915076/slave-quest
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: The reasons for deletion cited above are . The https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Koch&oldid=733122952 previous version of the bio was terrible for all sorts of reasons, but didn't egregiously violate  in a way that could harm a living person, and it least asserted notability, such as firsts, and cited a source for it.https://books.google.com/books?id=TrHtBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT26&dq=snowboard+stephen+koch&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDvMmK1uLPAhXIKWMKHTglC44Q6AEITTAH#v=onepage&q=snowboard%20stephen%20koch&f=false Many of those links to Koch's own website were mirrors of reliable sources; such links are not ideal but they were evidence that the sources exist, which is what AfD is concerned with. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Koch&type=revision&diff=744131138&oldid=733122952 These edits deleted everything and replaced it with only a single negative event, turning it into an ttack page|Attack page.Koch was the subject of a https://www.outsideonline.com/1915076/slave-quest profile in Outside (magazine) in 2003, and https://www.outsideonline.com/1822306/facing-fall-line again in 2004.  Koch was interviewed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1199075/ in 2003, and was the subject of https://web.archive.org/web/20121104195022/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/siadventure/25/everest/ an article in Sports Illustrated in 2003. There's a few pages at least devoted to Koch in https://books.google.com/books?id=U9gjfqjY6FcC&pg=PA169#v=onepage&q&f=false a 2012 book published by ABC-CLIO. Could stop right there.  met. But there's also a http://www.outsideonline.com/search/google/stephen%20koch large number of short-to-medium pieces about of Koch in ''Outside'' and in other sources http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0323_040323_jimmychin.htmlhttp://www.onthesnow.com/news/a/594092/tweak-your-skills--intensive-ski---snowboard-camps-improve-techniquehttp://planetjh.com/2015/11/10/feature-the-death-of-superman/http://www.si.com/vault/2002/08/26/328150/inside-out-news-and-notes-from-the-world-of-adventure-sportshttp://www.si.com/vault/2002/12/16/8111829/what-it-takes-five-top-adventurers-tell-us-the-gifts-theyve-gotta-have-this-holiday-season. And http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/top_stories/exum-fires-guide-koch/article_8d505caf-2327-582e-91b3-870088c26380.html the incident the attack page is based on
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:SURMOUNTABLE||WP:BLP||WP:A||WP:GNG)