Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albert Bedane

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 was keep. — CharlotteWebb 01:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albert Bedane

Only claim to notability is being recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. Did once get mentioned in BBC, but there are only 231 hits on Google for this person, doesn't seem like being a good person during WWII is enough for an article. Doesn't really meet WP:BIO. --Rory096 04:03, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• keep Google is a poor reference finder for people notable for events dating 60+ years ago. He seems at least somewhat notable, and information contained in the article is verifiable. Sources are provided. Could use some expansion from, say, books??? (good information exists outside of the internet!!! No joke!!!) but I see there being enough here to support keeping this article. --Jayron32 04:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Of course there's information off the internet, but there's no dispute that the only reason he would be notable is because he's a righteous gentile- a title which, currently, 21,311 people hold. --Rory096 05:04, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Is there any reason per se why the Righteous Among the Nations are not as notable as other heroes? And since Wikipedia is not paper, is there any reason why we may not hope to see eventually the deeds of all current 21,311 Righteous described here? Man vyi 07:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Article is sourced and informative. --Falcorian ^(talk) 04:29, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, has two non-trivial external sources and a blue plaque on his house, that's good enough for me. He died in 1980, so Google is not the best source to prove or disprove his notability. Demiurge 10:59, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Provides valuable information. I agree with Man vyi here. I also hope to see similar articles about people who behaved decently in other genocidal contexts. Stammer 13:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC).
• Keep. BBC story is itself evidence of sufficient notability. Surely in time the referencing can be deepened, but for now clearly a keep. Bucketsofg 14:52, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep per above. Newyorkbrad 19:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as above, though the article needs to say more about what he did. -- Beardo 23:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, Righteous Among the Nations is certainly a meaningful notability. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I remembered a docudrama about the channel islands and WW2 on PBS - I'm not sure if this guy was featured in it but I was curious enough to do a search on LexisNexis (probably not the best source for old UK news). Anyway, I came up with 15 hits, including a 1240 word profile in The Guardian (2004) and a 714 word profile in the Daily Mail (1999) as well as about a dozen other much briefer articles. I can send copies to someone working on the article. This is an old and obscure story but not a non-notable one. Besides, the article is pretty good and I really can't see the harm in keeping it. GabrielF 06:24, 26 November 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.