Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luis Barragan (executive)

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 03:18, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Luis Barragan (executive)

• Delete because the article is essentially nothing. The only information is that he was president of 1-800-Mattress and that he died recently. While he was an important figure for the company, it was actually his father who started the business. In my opinion, he's not notable enough to be put on the list of notable deaths-- personally, when I saw his name on the list, I had no idea who he was, and after reading that article, I wasn't much more informed. --Evan Carlstrom 04:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

This is a very short article on a not notable person --Xrblsnggt 19:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep and improve article. I added him to the recent deaths after seeing reports of his death in the Boston Globe [1] and New York Times [2]. The New York Daily News claims that he helped build the family business 1-800-Mattress into the leading supplier of bedding in the US and the family into one of the wealthiest Hispanic families in the US. [3] There is enough verifiable material about him from reliable sources to indicate notability Capitalistroadster 21:33, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep FWIW, this company is pretty well known, particularly in the New York metroplitan area. Also, his obituary made the Associated Press, so I believe he qualifies as notable. Mikemoto 21:35 9 July 20006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Many newspaper obituaries, even in major newspapers and newswires are not of encyclopedically notable people . I don;t see any claim to notability here aside from being in charge of 1-800-Mattress's expansion strategy, which I dont think qualifies for encyclopedic notability (are we going to have articles for every chief operating officer of medium sized companies ever?). Bwithh 01:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, based upon my experience with the Brede Arkless article and Capitalistroadster. RFerreira 03:19, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable, This has no possibility of being anything but a two sentence stub if it stays encyclopedic. FancyPants 07:12, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Absolutely no notability whatsoever. (Pally01 11:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC))
• Delete the difference between this article and the one RFerria mentioned are that it has multiple sources and a claim to notability. Unless someone provides both, I don't see this article being any more than it is now. --djrobgordon 18:16, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Zerbey 19:00, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if it's expanded. I did some online research last night in hopes of starting an entry, and there's just no biographical info on the Web. I was surprised when I checked the "deaths" list today and saw that his name was no longer in red. Despite the dearth of bio info online, evidently he was in line to succeed his father at the mattress retailer. DL77 21:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The company is notable. This executive is not. Flying Jazz 23:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Capitalistroadster. Jokestress 17:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He was a very young, successful head of a business known world-wide who died unnaturally (untimely) at age 34. Merits remaining. Rosemary's Baby 06:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per above. Dionyseus 08:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - I am sad for the guy and his family but there is no notability. The key point is that his father was still the CEO and Luis was still working for him. Had he been CEO then he would have been notable. As it is he is one of very many senior executives around. BlueValour 02:03, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - not notable. Shaqspeare 22:20, 15 July 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.