Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Pendar

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/default keep. The addition of sources has removed the basis for Hoary's vote rationale; Capitalistroadster and Uncle G both suggest that the subject exhibits some level of noteworthiness. If expansion doesn't occur, this could be brought back to AfD after a few months. Xoloz 21:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kenneth Pendar

Conspiracy theory about a person with no evidence of fact or notability.--Peta 05:33, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Could be a hoax. If it's true and worth saying, the editor could easily have explained. Even if it's not a hoax, I guess it's a troll: somebody's chuckling as he looks forward to watching the earnest Wikipedians fall over themselves "assuming good faith", etc. The amount of effort already expended on this AfD easily exceeds that spent on the article, so the hell with the article. -- Hoary 05:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete dot dot dot Danny Lilithborne 06:25, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:V and WP:RS. This article has been on Wikipedia for a year and a half and apparently has never had a single source. The article does not indicate why either the subject's official activity or his alleged undercover activity would justify an article about him per WP:BIO. --Metropolitan90 08:17, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Change my recommendation to neutral in recognition of the fact that sources have since been added. --Metropolitan90 16:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
• If it helps, Kenneth W. Pendar is the author of 2 books, Adventure in Diplomacy: Our French Dilemma (ISBN 1932512004) and Adventure in Diplomacy (World War II) (ISBN 0306707748). The blurb for the first book claims that the author is a "Harvard librarian turned U.S. diplomat in French North Africa during WW2". Uncle G 08:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Kenneth Pendar is also mentioned in conjunction with the Office of Strategic Services, a search reveals, in Winks, Robin W. (1987). Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-07300-X. , although that could be based solely upon Pendar's own book. Uncle G 09:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)]
  • You can also find Pendar mentioned in David H. Lippman's World War 2 history here and here. Uncle G 09:08, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
• The article currently appears well-referenced but the question is whether it can be expanded beyond a stub. A Google book search comes up with 80 references in 10 books including one in the Hinge of Fate by Winston Churchill. [1]

Apparently, he hosted Churchill and Roosevelt after the conference at Marrakesh. Capitalistroadster 01:37, 8 October 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.