Talk:Suksun Itthipanyanan

Dedication
This page is dedicated to Suksun Itthipanayan who is the second place finisher at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. This result has allowed him to name an Asteroid, under his name.

please refer to :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings_of_asteroid_names_%2821001-22000%29

and if a Very Large Telescope can have a site, then so can he. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Berkeley413 (talk • contribs).
 * Hmm. Guess that is borderline notable. I'll remove the tag I added. --Afluent Rider 07:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I respectfully disagree. I don't think being a member of a team that came in second at a science fair establishes notability.--Kubigula (talk) 03:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I would agree, and would not object to a proposed deletion or AFD. It just doesn't seem to be a speedy candidate. --Afluent Rider 22:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Notability revisited
I removed the proposed speedy deletion tag because the article has made an assertion of notability. However, I have continuing reservations that this article is not right for Wikipedia in its present state; it's more like a myspace page than a Wikipedia article.

I propose to address this by changing this article to a redirect to a brief article about the asteroid, similar to 21517 Dobi. Alternately, I would possibly support keeping this article if there were more information and sourcing regarding the Thai awards - "excellent Role Model in Science and Technology for the 2007 year by the Crown Prince of Thailand" and "Exceptional Young Scientist of Thailand". I have attempted to research these online, but I am unable to find supporting information. If the article is kept, I think it needs cleanup, including the removal of the pictures, which aren't particularly encylopedic.

Or, we can simply list the article at Articles for deletion, and let the community decide.--Kubigula (talk) 05:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This last bit came off a little like a threat, which it really isn't meant to be. WP:AFD is a good mechanism for determining the community consensus for articles that don't necessarily get a lot of editor attention.--Kubigula (talk) 06:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Merged
No discussion or reliable sourcing for some of the claims having emerged, I have merged some of the relevant content to 21540 Itthipanyanan. The asteroid is clearly notable, and this treatment is consistent with other articles on asteroids named after science fair winners.-- Kubigula (talk) 19:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)