Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Cape

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 01:34, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Andrew Cape

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Keep: as creator of article I assert notability and moved article from PROD to AfD for wider discussion. Maplewooddrive 19:53, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete sad that this fellow passed away, and while I'm sure he was a nice guy, Wikipedia is very specifically not a memorial. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - agreed that it's sad, but also not notable. mattbuck 20:31, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Article does not claim any substantial notability. —dustmite 21:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - the tone is inappropriate, but this (from the article) isn't just a pro forma obit, it's a reliable secondary source that overtly establishes notability. --- tqbf 00:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC) I'm sold. Delete. --- tqbf 18:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - Donegal Today is hardly a great tome of publishing. It's a local paper - they do obits about lots of people who aren't truly notable. mattbuck 00:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment - Newspapers (even local ones: the Donegal Democrat is in WP) tend to publish obits as 550 word news stories when there is a claim for notability. Here, that seems to mean:

1. Being a columnist for a local newspaper
2. Founding a successful chain of health food stores
3. Organizing a large Irish health food conference

Conceded: this person is, at best, marginally notable. The article is too big and has unencyclopedic tone. Not sure it's a no-brainer delete though. --- tqbf 01:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Nothing about this person's life makes him sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Terraxos 17:27, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I don't think an obituary in a local newspaper is enough to establish notability; neither The Telegraph nor The Guardian (who are both big on obits) carried one. Also, even though he founded a chain of stores and organised a conference, neither of these two seem to be notable enough for their own articles. Eixo 18:42, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Doesn't seem notable to me. DiegoGirl 19:12, 12 November 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.