Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Rogers

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 no consensus. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matthew Rogers

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Early eliminated contestant on Idol 3. Appears only to have had a few minor journalist credits since the contest, and is now a high-school football coach. Delete per wikipedia is not a directory of former Idol contestants. Ohconfucius 08:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Matthew Rogers is now the host of Really Big Things on the Discovery Channel. This now makes him a notable television host. So deleting his profile doesn't make any sense now. I'm going to remove the delete tag.

The2ndflood 10:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• That is not how things work, unfortunately. The process must be allowed to finish. Kindly read what is in the AfD notice. I have reinstated the tag. Ohconfucius 09:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 15:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, no reliable non-trivial second party references shown Alf^Photoman 17:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Many secondary sources are out there (I don't care to search at the moment, sorry). Considering his accomplishments, there is no doubt that a verifiable article could be written about this notable subject. --- RockMFR 22:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Being the host of Really Big Things certainly makes him notable even if being an Idol finalist and player on a Rose-Bowl-winning football team wasn't sufficient (which I'd have thought it was). Pinball22 15:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Keep, because 1) deletionism is ruining Wikipedia and 2) American Idol has such a large fan base, people are likely to be interested in all of the contestants. Let's not turn away readers of the site, just because select individuals don't care about some information. If anyone out there is interested and the article is factual, keep it. If you don't like it, read something else, but don't ruin things for the rest of us. Best, —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 164.107.223.217 (talk) 06:34, 6 March 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.