Talk:Pete Karagianis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chess, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of chess. For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.	Chess Portal
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-Importance on the importance scale.

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by the Sports and games work group.

This article has been automatically assessed as Stub-Class by WikiProject Biography because it uses a stub template. If you agree with the assessment, please remove {{WPBiography}}'s auto=yes parameter from this talk page. If you disagree with the assessment, please change it by editing the class parameter of the {{WPBiography}} template, removing {{WPBiography}}'s auto=yes parameter from this talk page, and removing the stub template from the article.

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 08:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-notable?

No offense to Mr. Karagianis, but if Catherine Lip and Charles Weldon were deleted as non-notable, I am inclined to think that he is non-notable as well. Note that Weldon was a FIDE Master (Jeremy Gaige, Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography, p. 460), while Karagianis is not. Krakatoa (talk) 17:07, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Incidentally, if you click on the Illinois Chess Bulletin link given in the article, that publication appears to now be an online-only publication with almost no current content (e.g., you can play over games from 2004). Krakatoa (talk) 17:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I tend to agree. The 2201 FIDE rating may confer some notability, but only if he was well known in some other area of chess. In a journalistic sense, his writings seem a bit fringe - the 'Underground Review' issue 2 article I read had 'inspiration' as its main thread, with only peripheral chess content. The 2 issues were from early 2006 and it then appears to have been discontinued. I think published books and/or a regular column in a national newspaper or magazine would be a minimum for notability as an author. Brittle heaven (talk) 18:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)