Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dallas Raines


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The result was   keep. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 09:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Dallas Raines

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Prod (by another user) deleted by IP without explanation. TV personality that doesn't pass WP:GNG, WP:BIO. tedder (talk) 01:50, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Sources exist. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 02:55, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: Undistinguished local TV weather reporter with no sources establishing sufficient notability beyond the local community. The sources provided by Peregrine above are a trivial blog post, a local article about how some crazy woman was convicted of stalking the subject, and a google search with only 170 hits, all of them of only local significance at best. Clearly fails WP:GNG and WP:BIO, and there is no indication that suficient sourcing will ever be found. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 09:23, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep I see hundreds of mentions in reliable sources. Though many are trivial, some are certainly not.  For example, this is 285 words about Raines including discussion of his professional credentials, this which discusses several weather broadcasters, saying "KABC's Dallas Raines by far is the best. Always cheerful with a hopeful attitude", this which includes the lines, "On television, the weatherman is upstaging the anchor man. Dallas Raines has replaced Fabio as a cult figure. (And has almost as much hair.) People try desperately to memorize that five-day forecast they flash across the screen for three seconds", and this, which says " TV weatherman Dallas Raines demonstrated on Thursday that he's a lot more than just a weather-hunk meteorologist with a perpetual tan. The KABC (Channel 7) personality is also a college instructor at California State University, Northridge, and by all accounts, a pretty effective one.Lecturing to a standing-room-only audience of 40 undergraduates, Raines, 43, discoursed on atmospheric pressure, El Nino and south swells.", continuing for total of 436 words.  Cullen 328   Let's discuss it  00:44, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per Cullen328. Well known media figure in one of the world's largest markets. Here's another instance of substantial coverage.  --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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