Deletion of Khrystenn Asariah

Comment: in a recent edit by Jed Pelligrino http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khrystenn_Asariah&diff=next&oldid=408874562, after the AfD had been opened and  mentioned, we suddenly find Khrystenn on the world stage, with a 5th place finish in the ISU Junior Grand Prix.  The table had hitherto listed only state and regional competitions.  As the originator of this article, Jed seemed to know a lot about Khrystenn that can't be derived from readily available sources on the web.  Jed also claims personal acquaintance with Khrystenn.  And yet, somehow this placement didn't come to mind when he created the article. Khrystenn herself, on her own website, on the page devoted to her competitive history,http://www.khrystennasariah.com/-competitive-history.html does not list the Junior Grand Prix, a significant one with cash awards for a 5th place finalist.  It's academic here, I suppose, since, for  notability, a skater has to have entered the Grand Prix, not the Junior Grand Prix; so Khrysten still falls short by Wikipedia standards for skaters even with this new pinnacle apparently revealed.  Still, I wonder if Jed could provide us with the document and the page number, given that this 5th place finish is not listed on the web anywhere, not even on Khrystenn's own website, where she's hardly shy about listing her accomplishments.  I can ask around among the skaters I know (some of them coaches); maybe one of them will be able to verify against their own copy
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Comment: You have twice stated she went under a different name, but have not provided it.  And you added false information to the article asserting she placed 5th in the Junior Grand Prix.  |Assuming good faith only goes so far.  Please provide this mysterious other name that she went by along with some proof of the change in names, along with an explanation for the introduction factual error into the biography
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF)

Comment: JP: "I have seen several skaters on here with similar, if not less, athletic achievements in skating."  See  -- that makes no difference.  In the case of skater bios, it's a problem I might be more aware of than most.  Around May of last year, word came down that there were too many unreferenced bios on Wikipedia.  In the course of saving maybe a few dozen skater bios from deletion by providing  sourcinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20100508131856&limit=500&target=Yakushima, I ran across some skater bios that shouldn't have existed in the first place under  or .  But my priority at the time was to save the bios of notable skaters, not to delete the bios of non-notable ones. Name these skaters with "similar, if not less, athletic achievements", and I'll nominate those for deletion too, unless they happen to meet  on other grounds
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Comment: Jed, you say the reason you removed two delete votes was that they were "not relevant or appropriate" and got "personal."  One of those comments wished her luck in her career.  Under Assume Good Faith , you are supposed to assume that the comment was sincere.  The other comment said that placing fourth in a state competition was "not even close" to meeting the requirements for notability (implicitly, as a figure skater on Wikipedia).  Well, objectively (and that's what counts here), 4th in a state comp really ''is'' not even close -- see .  Finally, in neither your edit summary nor any subsequent discussion here, until your deletion of votes was pointed out, was there any indication from you of why you did this - and if you had a problem with the comments of others, you should have pointed it out
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF||WP:ATHLETE)

Comment: oh, it's hardly your last chance, JP.  (Unless you get banned for tampering with an AfD discussion.)  You could, for example, start the article Richard Dwyer -- a skater who still doesn't have Wikipedia bio despite easily vaulting over the barriers of not just  but  as well.  Certainly, if we have any single priority here, it should be something like "most notable first", should it not?  At least, it would be if you're actually here to make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia of figure skating.  But when you ''claim'' you've edited other skater bios like Trenary's, while your available editing history shows you're basically just a  for Khrystenn Asariah, you're making it very difficult indeed for any of the rest of us to maintain an Assumption of Good Faith 
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ATHLETE||WP:GNG||WP:SPA||WP:AGF)

Comment: The inclusion in Wikipedia is guided by what is called "notability".  This is a specific concept covering guidelines for keeping articles on wikipedia that is distinct from any dictionary definition of the word.  For inclusion in general, see Wikipedia:Notability.  The essence of that is that the subject of the article has received significant coverage in |reliable sources that are independent of the subject.  For athletes, there is some more specific guidance at Wikipedia:Notability (sports).  There isn't a specific guideline for figure skaters but the essence of the general guideline for sports figures is that they must have competed at the highest level of their sport.  With respect to Khrystenn Asariah, she has not received significant coverage in reliable sources to meet the general inclusion guidelines.  With respect the guidelines for athletes, she has not competed at the highest level of her sport which would require her to have been in international competitions such as Grand Prix events.  That is the reason this article has been nominated for deletion, and why other editors are recommending its deletion.  There has been no evidence put forward that she meets the above stated guidelines.  And unless such evidence is put forward, the article is likely to be deleted
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: per .  4th in a state championship?  Not even close
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ATHLETE)

Comment: JP, you claim you "have worked on several other bios (Trenary's, Lenko's, Belbin's)".  I don't see those articles listed in your contributions. Special:Contributions/JPelligrino|contribs  You say not every sentence in a bio has a citation.  True, but every purported ''fact'' in a  must have reliable sourcing under .  You say "perhaps Ms. Asariah is under the wrong category" (twice now), but you don't suggest one.  I can tell you right now: she doesn't make the cut as a recording artist, nowhere near.  Music teacher?  I don't think so.  There are standards for skating coaches, but again, she's nowhere near.  And as far as I know, there's no category like "Past Presidents of Political Science Clubs at Universities
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