Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/"Maserati Rick" Carter

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The result was Delete. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 10:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Maserati Rick" Carter

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An article on this person was previously created under a different title, and deleted because it was a copyright violation; see here. I've just created a (non-copyright violating) stub, because the article is listed on Requested Articles. However, the previous discussion aired some doubts about the subject's notability, so I am asking for a consensus on that here. Essentially, I can either remove the article request as fulfilled or as non-notable, it's just a case of which – Qxz 10:27, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment I found a couple Detroit News articles on the subject (August 15 and 17, 1990), but unfortunately I can only get the abstracts, and there's not enough there for me to determine notability. Maybe someone has access to them. --Djrobgordon 11:27, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• DeleteGoogling him with quoation marks around his name gives a hundred or so results, one of which is a pic of his gravestone if you go into the website. Again, its more a debate on wether this guy is notable - and to be honest I dont see it. Looks like a local criminal, of which there are plenty in communities around the world but that doesnt mean they all (if any) deserve a wikipedia article.--PrincessBrat 12:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, non-notable.--Vox Rationis 17:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Multiple articles in the Detroit News, per above. Also, mention in the Detroit Free Press. I think more would turn up, but given the timing and the fact that he was a minor character in the 80's US drug epidemic, a lot of the newspaper coverage would probably not show up in online source. - Mocko13 01:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The biographical notability guideline suggests subject of multiple non-trivial published works. There are multiple trivial works and is this man the subject? Not really. Besides I'm sure there are lots of dead drug dealers and the only thing special about this guy is his coffin. James086^Talk 10:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

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