Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luiz Palhares
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
— User:Bellerophon, 23:00, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:MANOTE||WP:N||WP:ANYBIO||WP:MANOTE||WP:CSD||WP:BARE (Wikipedia:Notability)