Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finola Hackett
I'm going to basically paraphrase the argument I made on the talk page for this article: It is my opinion that every National Spelling Bee winner is quite notable. To win an extremely well-known and well-regarded competition, one which millions of people enter and has been nationally televised for a decade, is as strong a claim of notability as being a famous Go (board game)|Go or poker player (and I'm a ''huge'' poker fan, so I don't want my Marcel Luske article deleted!). Coming in second in this competition is definitely a claim of notability which may, in and of itself, help the person pass . But, for the sake of disagreement, let's say it's not. The CanSpell National Spelling Bee is a nationally-held tournament in Canada, and both years it has been held, Finola has won it.  asserts notability for "Persons achieving renown or notoriety for their involvement in newsworthy events," and Finola has been involved in three different newsworthy events (albeit all regarding spelling). Just look at Yanksox's Google News link to see how widespread coverage of national spelling bees (American and Canadian) is. Or just search "Finola Hackett" on regular Google and check out the 20,100 total and 277 unique hits
— User:Kicking222, 15:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)