Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Alhart

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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. The ones who wanted the article kept provided sources, and winning the Murrow award could be sufficient for WP:N Wizardman 03:02, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Don Alhart

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Contested prod, about a minor market (Rochester) news anchor with no claim or assertion to notability. Rackabello 22:45, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per WP:BIO and WP:INHERITED; being a news anchor for a TV station doesn't automatically make them notable. There are many major market (i.e. NYC, LA, Philly, DC) anchors who don't have articles. NASCAR Fan24(radio me!) 22:50, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to WHAM-TV since there is much that assert its notability. Here in Ottawa, he used to have the Rochester channels before both Rogers and Videotron had switched to the Detroit market and I believe he was not the evening news anchor before the change although it seem to have changed since then, but still not notable enough.--JForget 23:12, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep the Article You say: "There are many major market (i.e. NYC, LA, Philly, DC) anchors who don't have articles." But your argument is flawed. Perhaps the others did at one point, but they got deleted. Because it is not likely that all news anchor pages won't be added at once, following your logic one can assume there will never be a page for ANY anchor.

I was looking for information on Don Alhart and when I found that his page was blank, I thought I would create it and others would add more information later on. Also, doesn't the fact that the 200,000 people of Rochester could easily recognize him on the street cause him to be noteworthy? --Corgana 01:45, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep He has been with the same network for over 40 years now [1] [2]. People seeing your face every night for that long is pretty notable. ARendedWinter 07:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep There's plenty of news coverage of the guy in google news archives. [3] [4] [5] Of course, it's all local coverage.--chaser - t 04:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notable, sourceable. Wikidemo
  • Delete. Local small-market news anchor. Fails WP:BIO Cap'n Walker 18:29, 10 October 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.