Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Talbot

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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:43, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Simon Talbot

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Likely autobiographical vanity article. As List of Clipper Round the World Yacht Race results shows, there have been some 120 skippers in the race between 1998 and 2020, and there are only four with biographies including luminaries such as Alex Thompson. Nothing in Talbot's career makes him more special than the others.

References are either from Clipper Ventures' website (the company he was employed by) or The Telegraph, regurgitating Clipper Ventures' press releases. The last two references are local newspaper coverage and being runner-up in a non-notable award. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 20:38, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and England. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 20:38, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As with reality television shows, we used to include runners-up, but with those and similar sporting endeavors and competitions, we have in the past 10-12 years only tended to keep the winner, or at most the top three. There is no evidence that this person passes WP:GNG by way of WP:SIGCOV. Bearian (talk) 15:42, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:30, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.