Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Weihmayr

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The result was delete - fails WP:BIO, not notable. - KrakatoaKatie 09:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Weihmayr

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Fails WP:BIO. Claim towards notability is that he was nominated for parliament in Canada (and failed), which is not enough by established standards. Further, some military decorations (not quite a clear case). Press coverage given is local to London, Ontario. -- Sent here as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding 16:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Neither the Canadian Forces Decoration nor the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal are important decorations. The former is awarded to nearly any Canadian service member who makes it 10 years without coming up on charges and the latter was handed out to officers & senior NCOs liberally. Subject wasn't even "nominated for parliament" per the nom; he failed even to win the nomination to run in a by-election from his party. Any time an article contains a line like "Weihmayr is included in Wikipedia as a result of local media controversy...", it sends up the "reaching for notability" red flags. Oh, and considering the primary author is User:Otweihmayr, we probably have WP:AUTO issues here too. Caknuck 17:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep If the referenced decorations are so lacking of merit, why are there Wikipedia articles about them? Caknuck's use of the word "liberally" is original research or opinion. --12.156.196.130 03:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
    • That the decorations are notable doesn't imply that people who received them are notabe too. --B. Wolterding 07:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
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