Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abner Carroll Binder


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:43, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Abner Carroll Binder

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seemingly non-notable journalist whose notability appears to stem from donating money and papers to a university who established a scholarship in his name. Toddst1 (talk) 20:48, 20 November 2013 (UTC) Withdrawn per arxilos. Thanks for finding that. Toddst1 (talk) 07:16, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete Reads as a WP:MEMORIAL article. Apparently no one wrote about Binder while alive or dead, independently, that I can see. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 01:45, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per Arxiloxos. Apparently drop "Abner" when searching. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 03:52, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. This journalist died in 1956 so we are stuck with old sources having limited online access.  But, the "find sources" links for his professional byline, Carroll Binder, produce volumnious results in GBooks, GScholar, and GNews.  He has a New York Times news obit, although it is paywalled so we can see only the headline ("CARROLL BINDER, EDITOR, DIES AT 60; Chief of Minneapolis Tribune Editorial Page Had Served on U.N. Information Unit Urged Freedom of Information) and first line--someone with full Times access can see the whole thing.  His bio is also included in the 1951 edition of Current Biography, but only a snippet is visible. GNews shows that his columns were widely printed with his name as the headline.  With due regard for avoiding FUTON bias, I conclude that he was notable in his time and that we are better serving our encyclopedic task by keeping him around. --Arxiloxos (talk) 02:12, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, good deal of potential secondary sourcing here. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:31, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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