Let's bring back some memories of Himdenburg:
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http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Hindemburg_Melão_Jr._(deleted_14_May_2008_at_0 2:20)Best of the debate leading to deletion of the article:
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. ..
There was a contested prod for this article (the prod had been placed by User:DGG as "non-notable chess player and self-styled genius"). Lots of claims to notability in the text of the article but on closer inspection it does not seem to me that they hold up. 1)The high IQ societies stuff: the societies mentioned themselves are not notable. 2) Guinness records (longest checkmate in a blindfold match or something like that). Possibly notable, I am not sure. Does not seem to have received substantial mention or coverage anywhere else except for a mention in the Correspondense Chess News article mentioned in this WP entry. Still, could be the strongest claim to notability but I am not sure what to make of it. Guinness has a lot of weird and not notable stuff like people with the longest nose or whatever. 3) Possibly a notable chess player. Again, based on the sources presented, it does not quite look like that to me. The same Correspondense Chess News article mentions that his FIDE ranking is quite low, at 2164. He does not seem to hold a Grandmaster rank or even an International Master or a FIDE Master (at least I have not seen it mentioned anywhere). 4) There are a few more things in the entry like inventing some new IQ test and some kind of new university exam tests but these claims are thin on references and do not appear to be notable. GoogleNews (all dates) gives 2 hits[1]...
Delete :I do not often use the word vanity, but this is one of the times. We are not an extension of Guinness; and less than notable in a lot of things adds up to less than notable. That would be if everybody put the best face possible on their resume and added it up in some numerical fashion, as a ranking, but we mean having some notable accomplishment. DGG (talk) 14:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Delete as per the nomination and DGG. I would regard even a FIDE Master, without more, as non-notable, and he's apparently not even that. Membership in Mensa and the like is surely non-notable. This is an article desperately in search of a reason for existing. 15:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC) Krakatoa (talk)
Delete His chess accomplishments are not notable. His FIDE rating is really low (lower than a lot of members of the Wikiproject Chess, for a start). He could become strong in correspondence chess one day, but it still has to be. The claim about "one of the best novelty" is just vanity. SyG (talk) 18:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
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Delete Guiness stuff, non-notable and vanity —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tosqueira (talk • contribs) 18:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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