Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dick Crippen

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, defaulting to keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dick Crippen

Article tagged as nn-bio for speedy delete. Contested on basis of sufficient notability. Bringing to AFD for consensus. — ERcheck (talk) 02:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Local news anchors are not notable enough AdamBiswanger1 02:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep based on previous AfD consensus on local news anchors. --CFIF (talk to me) 02:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you please provide a link? Even so, should this not be merged to WFLA-TV? AdamBiswanger1 03:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[1] [2]--CFIF (talk to me) 12:39, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Not notable. Most local television anchors are not notable as a rule, unless they have done something that has brought them national or international note. Buckner 1986 03:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Neutral. I disagree that local news anchors are "not notable as a rule," since they appear every day in the living rooms of hundreds of thousands of people. But I also think that when there's this little content, it should be merged into an article on the station. -- Mwalcoff 04:06, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm wary of accepting the notion that all TV presenters merit a wikipedia article: I think that there is a risk of confusing notability with visibility. There are precedents for keeping them, but this one doesn't seem to me to be as notable as the other barley-notable anchors listed. --BrownHairedGirl 07:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - The article now has some external links added. Matise 16:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as notability seems to be established and verified in the article. Themindset 17:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. Local cable show is not notability. Local newsanchors may be borderline notable but former ones are definitely not unless they achieved some national award. Ifnord 18:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep per precedent. Regional notability. On-air personality for over 40 years. Medtopic 20:11, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep seems mildly important. --Ted87 01:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep in addition to the regional notability precedent as mention above, Dick Crippen also has national notability as part of The Water Channel's powerboat racing coverage (part of the DirectTV package among others). The Water Channel bio also mention works with ESPN and Nascar. I'm going to merge those details into the article. Agne 03:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Notable enough in his own market. This is established criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia. Bastique▼^parler _voir 14:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above.User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 15:23, 4 August 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.