Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaius Stern

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. Mailer Diablo 05:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gaius Stern

Gaius is a friend of mine, so this AFD is nothing personal. However, I don't believe he meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines for living people. The only article that links to this is Carper Award, and whether the Carper Award is notable or not, I don't think its notability implies that everyone who has received the award is notable. The article doesn't mention that he co-founded the predecessor organization to the Academic Competition Federation; however, I don't think that affiliation automatically makes him notable either. Perhaps someone will edit the article so as to better assert the notability of the subject, but I don't think it's possible. Delete. Catamorphism 00:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

• KEEP: founder of and key figure in an organization relevant to a large number of American college students. In fact, this organization is apparently notable enough to merit its own wikipedia page. In short, keep because Stern is a notable figure in the world of collegiate academic competitions. Quepasahombre 01:57, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. And is this notability verified at all? Where do these articles state Stern is a "key figure" in anything or that this organization is relevant to a "large number" of college students, or are you just presuming that? RGTraynor 06:28, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - 57 Unique Google hits (most of them lecture notes), about on par with the average University professor. Not notable, end of story. TydeNet 06:42, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete per above. Some vaguely notable things but nothing really important. Some guy 07:11, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Tone 09:28, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, I don't see any notability in him, an award doesn't make him notable. --Terence Ong 10:39, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - This might be found useful in the years to come should his quite notable organisation become famous. He's also as a result acheived some renown in newsworthy events. --Knucmo2 14:41, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- mholland 16:18, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep notability is not a proper criteria for deletion (verifiability would be, but the information is verifiable) dml 21:19, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep useful and notable. Jordanmills 22:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete non notable. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 22:32, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEME?) 21:52, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above areguments. Perhaps borderline notability, but, as an inclusionist, I'd rather to presume notability for potentially useful articles (like this one), than over-delete. Interestingstuffadder 02:53, 19 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.