Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard King (Texas)

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 -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 12:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard King (Texas)

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Non-notable page stub: farm owners are not notable. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:58, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

• Keep The King Ranch is not a farm, it's the largest ranch in the United States, larger then the state of Rhode Island and a major subject in Texas history. Amazon carries at least 20 books on the King Ranch. The King Ranch was a dominant breeder of race horses for many years, including a triple crown winner, Assault. Total historical revenue of the King Ranch is well over one billion dollars; lots of that is oil revenue, but many millions are also from horse race winnings, the ranch won over a million dollars in the 2 years 1954/1955. The King Ranch is a signicant tourist attraction. Deleting this article would be like deleting the article on Peter Carl Fabergé because he was "just a jeweler". Studerby 04:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 15:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

• Redirect King Ranch already contains a section on Richard King which appears to have more information that the nominated stub. Yngvarr (t) (c) 15:25, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

  Change to keep based on recent edits Yngvarr (t) (c) 23:51, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

• Redirect The King Ranch appears to be sufficient. Cogswobbletalk 15:40, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

  Support redirect since there seems to be more information at King Ranch about Richard King, than on the Richard King article itself. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 22:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. For heaven's sake he's such an icon somebody wrote a juvenile novel about his life. [1] Many, many sources about him available, excess information in King Ranch should be merged back here. --Dhartung | Talk 19:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment to above If the nominated article can be beefed up (ha, no pun intended!) to acceptable standards (WP:BIO), I'll gladly withdraw my redirect. As far as my own searches could unveil, he's mostly famous for founding one of the biggest ranches. Not being rude, but it sounds like King Ranch is more well-known than Richard King (WP:NOTINHERITED) Yngvarr (t) (c) 22:53, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. Much of the material about him in the King Ranch article is not about the ranch; it belongs here. His accomplishments include more than just setting up a humungous ranch and are notable enough IMO. Clarityfiend 06:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment Article expanded. Studerby 10:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, rewrite of article clearly establishes notability; significant figure in Texas history. Kuru ^talk 12:00, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep He's a king in Texas. Ritametermaid 23:27, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletions. -- Gavin Collins 08:31, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep WP is a great place for self-education on new subjects, but it should come prior to nominating them for deletion. DGG (talk) 09:21, 4 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.