Wikipedia:WikiProject Martial Arts - Martial Artists

Martial Artists

See also: Wikipedia:Notability (people) and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

In general, even if an artist is notable - if there is only one paragraph or so of material about them, then that should be included in the article about their style or school if that is notable,- redirects are cheap. If they are independently notable and the style is not, then do not create the article on the style but on them.

Criteria supporting notability

  1. Subject of an independent article/documentary; - same again...
  2. Founder of notable style (see section intro)
  3. Olympic participant or world champion of a significant international organization; -more than a few dozen competitors,
  4. Repeated medalist in another significant event;- (e.g. competitors from multiple nations or significant national tournament, not an internal school champion)
  5. Author of significant book(s) on their style;- e.g. a book that is recommended study for the art (e.g. by an organisation they do not lead) or by someone who is an artist from a different style and/or school, but beware vanity press.

Criteria supporting deletion

  1. Only achievement seems to be that they teach an art (or founded a non-notable art); perhaps also avoid even mentioning them in the article of the art unless they are one of a few high-ranked artists in an art that has thousands of students.

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