Deletion of Oscar Blansaer

Comment: Per . Because the subject competed a very long time ago, it's important to avoid a recency bias
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOLY)

Comment: Obviously |POINT-y nomination. This has been litigated to death. Olympians are notable. Period. If you don't like it, get consensus to change the guideline, don't disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)

Comment: per . A couple of recent similar discussions for Olympians at AfD can be found Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ernesto Alciati|here and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yun Chol (weightlifter)|here. Both were kept
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOLY)

Comment: Going to basically copy and paste my response from the other AfD:  doesn't exist because someone decided out of nowhere that all Olympians are notable or to override general notability guidelines. With arguably the exception of the earliest editions, but certainly by 1920, people who attended the Olympics were not just picked out of a hat, they were elite athletes at the national level. In 2020 on Google, yes, the only thing that is readily available is that he participated in one event at the Games, but the fact that he was there in the first place suggests that he had at least some success in his home country, which is probably difficult to find information about unless you have access to Belgian publications from the 1910s and 1920s.  exists, therefore, because consensus determined that if the individual was at the Games, there is a significant likelihood that sufficient sources for a biography exist that may just be difficult to access. My work is on pre-1952 Egyptian athletes, and information beyond their Olympic appearance is difficult to find in Arabic online, let alone in English. But I happen to have access to newspapers and sports journals from that era and there is plenty of coverage on all of them that would satisfy WP:N with ease. For a country like Belgium, which at the time had a better-developed press and sporting infrastructure, there must exist coverage of all of their Olympians that would easily satisfy WP:N, I just can't access it (or at least read it).  represents that consensus that these sources likely exist for all Olympians, even if we cannot find them, and so we can avoid discussions such as this and presume notability unless there is convincing evidence otherwise
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOLYMPICS)