Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yossi Ben Hanan

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, although I suspect there may be sock puppeting going on. Y.Ichiro (会話|+|投稿記録|メール) 03:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yossi Ben Hanan

No claim of notability aside from being on the cover of Life Magazine. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 06:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, no notability asserted. He's not notable, anyway. Royboycrashfan 06:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Being a Major General, on the cover of a national magazine, etc. doesn't merit notability? Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 07:30, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, nn-bio. The cover of Life shows only 'a soldier' as example, it doesn't mention his name on the cover. He seems now to be the head of the division for foreign defense assistance and exports in the Isreali Defense Ministry, but otherwise no notability Gu 08:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above - below WP:BIO standard. Eusebeus 11:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn Celcius 13:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Being on the cover of LIFE and a reasonably high-ranking government official really ought to be enough. Monicasdude 14:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It seems that he is notable in Israel. This book by Howard Blum, published by Harper Collins makes reference to Yossi Ben Hanan and the Life cover photo in the first chapter (quoted on the webpage). This page mentions him as a "public figure". Tupsharru 21:01, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Passes WP:KIT with ease. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-30 21:10
• Comment Ben Hanan is mentioned in at least four reference books published in the last nine years [1], which seems to infer notability. Humansdorpie 22:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Major General Ben Hanan was one of the Israeli officers who kept the Golan Heights from falling to Syria during the first days of the Yom Kippur War. He is an influential member of the Ministry of Defense, today, and exerts considerable influence over Israel's arms export industry. (—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.245.200.186 (talk • contribs).)
• Keep. A lot more notable than some things Wikipedia has kept. --Quintucket 23:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
• keep = as above. For great justice. 01:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep He's no Jason Allen Alexander. Eivind^t@c 04:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's more notable than Air Force Amy. Fishhead64 06:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - if we wrote articles about all the non-notable soldiers in magazines we'd have millions of articles. --Khoikhoi 03:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Sounds like a hero to me.--The Walrus 03:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn. --MaNeMeBasat 07:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep His heroic actions alone should provide the necessary notability. He deserves to have his own page as much as any other war hero who puts his life on the line to save others.--Brad M. 16:45, 2 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.