365:—This nomination includes remarks directly addressed to the subject's notability ("Appearing on 22 episodes of a game show and setting a record in a high school quiz bowl are not criteria that proves notability. Article also contains WP:OR about records he "is believed" to hold, such as "the longest ever 'real-time' champion since he taped his first show on December 14, 2004 and his last regular play show on July 9, 2005" Bulk of statistics in article are also unreferenced. Article contains anectodal mention of a hike the subject made across the US for charity, which again does not prove notability.") The quotations from earlier AFDs were included because the similar rational and related discussion for their deletion apply to my nomination of this article for deletion. The similar structure of this AFD to other recent AFDs also applies because of the similar notability claims of those articles and the result of the earlier bundled AFD in which they were all included.
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