Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Zamos

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. JIP | Talk 11:24, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Zamos

Delete. Non-notable individual/incident. — WCityMike ^{(T | C)} 15:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, if you want to just propose that all the articles I've started be deleted I can provide you a list. I think Zamos is notable. It takes a lot of guts to do that. Google returns 10K hits for "David Zamos"; story was picked up by dozens of major outlets in several countries. Mateo LeFou 15:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Presumably a keep, then. — WCityMike ^{(T | C)} 16:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

With regards to your other claim re: Google, there are only 137 unique results for "David Zamos" and "Microsoft." See Wikipedia:Google test, the subsection "On 'unique' results", for reference. — WCityMike ^{(T | C)} 16:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep notability due to media interest Deli nk 16:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep. I've added a reference to an article in the Chronicle for Higher Education to the article, which I found in Lexis-Nexis. Ideally, I'd like a few more articles, too, but this one is for me (barely) enough. Bucketsofg 16:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep For reasons alreayd stated above. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dangman4ever (talk • contribs).
• Delete Are we setting a precedent here? Are we saying that anyone who decides to sue a big company and gets a news article is notable? Since the suit was settled and the terms are secret, this sets no legal precedent. Unless Mr. Zamos intends to make suing companies a habit, can we assume that the 15 minutes of fame are nearly extinguished?Montco 23:00, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

If I thought anyone who decides to sue a big company is notable I'd have to start up a few hundred articles a day. But when someone singlehandedly gets one of the richest companies in the world to back down in a legal fight it's pretty notable.Mateo LeFou 13:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

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.