Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Schumann (adventurer)

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The result wasDelete Gnangarra 13:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Schumann (adventurer)

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unverifiable Feyandstrange 09:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

To expand: I can find no confirmation of this person's existence, let alone their claimed exploits. He's not in the Guinness book or any other listing of notable explorers, and searching on his name turns up nothing but the disambiguated composer and stuff which is possibly backtrailed to this article, or of equally dubious source. Unless someone has source on this, it seems pretty spurious, and for all I know is a vanity-vandal case. I'm nominating this for deletion. Feyandstrange 09:16, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. This rather unofficial looking page had details at the bottom - and yes, he did get off a plane near the poles and cycle there. However I'd like to see a better source. There is a panel in the centre of the CBBC page here but no indication where they got their material either. Even assuming he did what he did, I'm not sure it actually counts as much of an achievement (although a hell of a thing for the 'what I did on my holidays' essay when he got back to school...) Kim Dent-Brown ^{(Talk to me)} 09:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

• Change to merge into Polar exploration per HisSpaceResearch adding the Guinness citation to the article. Kim Dent-Brown ^{(Talk to me)} 12:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, worth perhaps a mention in the pole articles, but not worth a biography. Another mention among numerous other polar records themselves not necessarily worthy of biographies. --Dhartung | Talk 12:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. Hold on, I think I have an old Guinness Book of Records somewhere which I could cite as a source possibly.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 12:35, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. It's in this book that I have. I'll cite that as a source. Weak keep.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 12:37, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Delete Not really notable, just add it to the articles North Pole and South Pole if anything. Warrush
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 17:10, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Since it is now verifiable as a reference has been added, although it does have a limited amount of information it is suitable content for an enyclopedia. The Sunshine Man 10:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep as per The Sunshine Man. Still, if multiple sources could be found, that would help matters. --Paul Erik 13:35, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete For records of this kind there is a book already in existance, The Guiness Book of World Records. As the young guy arrived nearby the south pole by plane and only did the last meters on a bike he is not exactly an explorer or an adventurer. The fact itself is trivia and the subject not notable. doxTxob \ ^talk 23:06, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. Don't delete outright; merge somewhere appropriate instead.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 09:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)