Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iain Martell (3rd nomination)
page passes . Martell is notable for being a television personality as well as being a successful mixed martial artist in one of the UK's top promotions. As I have stated to the closing admin for the 2nd nomination, the three users who voted delete did so on baseless ground, which I broke down for the admin and after careful thought he realised that to delete the page was irrational, hence he reinstated the page providing that it goes back through an AfD under a new listing. And from I see from the votes so ar, I am seeing the same type of votes made in this one as in the last. MMANOT has been proven to be flawed, partially because it does state at the top of the page that the guideline can be used to interpreted notability, it doesn't say anything about being the de facto of notability for MMA related pages. Also I have also stated to the admin that the guideline failed to show other notable promotion such as the Super Fight League (India's biggest promotion), One Fighting Championship (the biggest and fastest growing promotion in Asia), the International Fight League (covered by mainstream sources and competed with the UFC at its height) or Invicta Fighting Championships (biggest woman's MMA promotion in North America) so for the guideline to not include UCMMA shouldn't affect notability at all. And I must point out that everyone is making it sound like that the only other sources out there on him outside his MMA is more related to another person. The fact is that it only covers a small part of his celebrity, as there as plenty of independent sources out there on him relating to TV appearances as well, and even with the two articles relating to Katie Price, it isn't like he is mentioned in just one line on just one paragraph from a poor source, he is mentioned on multiple articles for The Sun, the UK's biggest tabloid paper, and each article went into detail about, including a possible crush on Martell and Alex Reid (fighter)|Alex Reid getting confrontational with Martell and his gym members at one point. Hardly un-relating articles and overall I am still awaiting a good case for deletion
— User:Pound4Pound, 09:18, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)