Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Wilson (firefighter)


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 16:04, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Brian Wilson (firefighter)

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Person whose article makes no particularly strong claim of notability except having done volunteer work (which could be notable if he got a major award for it, but isn't notable by itself) and being deputy fire chief of a small town (which isn't particularly notable at all). While the article is referenced to reliable sources, they don't rise even slightly above the level of purely local human interest coverage, and thus fail to demonstrate that he actually belongs in an international encyclopedia. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 07:14, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 07:16, 16 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - Fails notability. Only articles are about him being named Deputy Chief, or about the fact that he was part of a group that was the subject of an article.  Caffeyw (talk) 07:39, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - While notability is very marginal, the article asserts the subjects notability (his public service), which was of sufficient interest for multiple independent reliable sources (both newspapers in this case) to publish articles on the subject. This meets the minimum guidelines for inclusion set out in Notability (people), specifically WP:BASIC and more generally WP:GNG. CooperDB (talk) 08:08, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Both newspapers are local to the places he was living in at the time they wrote about him. Newspapers write "local guy does stuff" human interest pieces all the time, but that does not necessarily mean that every single person who's ever had their name mentioned in two newspaper articles in their own hometown newspapers for fairly ordinary, run-of-the-mill activities belongs in an international encyclopedia. If he'd gotten into the Toronto Star or The Globe and Mail or the Vancouver Sun for those activities then things might be different, and if he'd been named to the Order of Canada for those activities then things would definitely be different — but strictly local human interest coverage does not cut it if it doesn't rise beyond the level of "local guy does stuff". Bearcat (talk) 16:22, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I disagree. The humanitarian actions of the subject were notable enough for multiple professional journalists to report them to their readers. As per the notions layed out in WP:IMBALANCE, local notability is important to this encyclopedia, and providing relevant, and hopefully interesting biographies on individuals is not to be ignored. While this subject only just meets the standards for inclusion and the article is only currently a stub, it is a fact that multiple, independent references have been published on the subject as per WP:BASIC. We as editors must take a cue from appropriate independent sources (as per WP:GNG) to what is notable and, at least to me, clearly this subject has met at least the minimum notablity standard for inclusion. CooperDB (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 08:26, 16 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete: No significant coverage. The two local news sources do not show notability. SL93 (talk) 18:09, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'm sure he's a wonderful human being, but a couple of the local newspaper items is not sufficient for inclusion in Wikipedia. -- Whpq (talk) 15:55, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.