Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin Olmstead

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 Viridae^Talk 22:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kevin Olmstead

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Delete - article was nominated along with several other Millionaire million dollar winners here and closed with keep and an admonition not to mass nominate. I mass nominated them here but because I started with a different article I missed the first mass nom. The result was speedy close. All of the individual articles except this one have now been deleted in individual AFDs but I missed this one. This article should be deleted for all the same reasons as the others, that winning a stack of cash on a game show does not confer notability even if it leads to an appearance or two on other game shows. The contestant is already mentioned in the main article as are all the other deleted million dollar winners. Otto4711 00:09, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom and per the reasons I gave in the mass nomination and the subsequent "separate" nominations. Agent 86 00:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. I'm trying to be helpful here and consider all sides of the debate, but I don't have time to comb through your contributions to find your rationale. Could you restate it, please? Thanks. —Carolfrog 04:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep from reading the article, it seems to meet notability guidlines and other Wikipedia policy requirements. Not every game show contestant deserves an article, but this guy is high above the rest. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 01:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Multiple references provided to major news sources including a Washington Post article, thus passes WP:BIO. —siroχo 02:10, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per siroχo--Nonpareility 02:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:BIO. - ElbridgeGerry t c block
• Keep. Most game show contestants are not notable. However, this individual is notable based on the multiple, independent, non-trivial coverage from reliable sources he has received, largely because he set a record for the "highest total winnings on a game show" at the time. -- Black Falcon 07:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - And though I agree with Black Falcon, the article could use some more expansion and addition of cited sources. Smee 10:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC).
• Keep, per all above. Obiviously notable. Mkdw^talk 10:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Passes WP:BIO. --Charlene 11:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, winning a stack of cash does not confer notability, but multiple reliable references does. --Canley 14:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per above --Austinsimcox 14:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Regardless of what may or may not be in the article on the game show, it appears that this person's article has multiple independently published articles specifically about them. Thus he meets at least the minimal notability requirements of WP:N. That alone would usually mean the article should be kept, but in addition it looks like he's also appeared on other shows besides just Millionaire, so merging makes even less sense given that not all the information in the article is about Millionaire. Dugwiki 17:28, 27 February 2007 (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.