Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Merkow
Don't get too impressed by it, Cordless Larry, it's a practice known as |bombardment or |ref-bombing.  Nowhere is there a policy which states that if you can find X number of references which include the words "David Merkow", then David Merkow is automatically notable.  Epeefleeche has bombarded this article with an assortment of sources, most of which mention David Merkow in some way, but do these sources establish the notability of David Merkow?  My opinion is no, they do not.  I've briefly looked through ''all'' of the sources (but certainly didn't read every word of each of them).  The vast majority of the sources prove nothing more than that David Merkow |exists, that he plays golf, and that he got a particular score in a particular match.  Other show that he is now an assistant golf coach at a university.  That's about it.  He is an ''amateur'' golfer, he plays in ''amateur/regional/collegiate'' tournaments.  This is not a professional golfer.  The fact that he won the Pan American Maccabi Games (an ''amateur'' competition which is open only to jews from certain countries) does not establish notability in any way.  The bottom line is this:  there are sources which mention this individual, no doubt.  However, do these sources describe any notable events that this individual was involved in?  How can we define whether the events described in the sources are notable?  Well, perhaps we can take a look at the secondary notability guidelines, which exist for a reason.  Are there any sources which show that this individual has accomplished anything described at #Golf?  Not that I can see.  There is only one criterion for amateur golfers, and that is if they have won at least one recognized amateur golf tournament at the national or international level (ex: US Amateur, British Amateur).  That would be a tournament that is open to ''any'' amateur, not just teenagers from Milwaukee, or just American college students, or just jews from north/south america and israel, etc.  Epeefleeche has found a wealth of |routine coverage of events in this individual's life which are not notable
— User:Snottywong, 17:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BOMBARD||WP:REFBOMB||WP:EXIST||WP:ATHLETE||WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Citation overkill)