Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Abbott

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. dbenbenn | talk 16:48, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Dave Abbott
Created by same user as Pat Healy. Also not notable enough as a Jeopardy! player (even though he won a Tournament of Champions). Individual articles are not required for 99% of players in Jeopardy's Ultimate Tournament. This constant article creation may be bordering on vandalism from the user. --OntarioQuizzer 04:12, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) Comment Thank You!! Someone understands that people who are knew aren't vandilizers.
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 09:23, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect into Jeopardy!. Mgm|(talk) 10:05, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 11:21, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete or Merge and (weak) redirect, for the same reasons I cited in an earlier Jeopardy-champ VfD. Barno 00:12, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I disagree with OntarioQuizzer about the articles' creation "bordering on vandalism", although I haven't researched the edit histories and talk pages to verify more.  It appears that a well-intentioned editor thinks (not unreasonably) that a Jeopardy! ToC winner is notable enough.  (Assume_good_faith; Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers.)  My opinion is that there's barely notability enough for one line in a Jeopardy! article's Former Champions section, below a Former Record Holders section.  Not enough for a biography article unless there's some much more significant noteworthiness for some other reason.  But the article's anonymous creator was probably being reasonable in finding these people "noteworthy in their field"... much more reasonable than if he or she insisted on posting the scores of every week's show for however many years the scores were available.  Barno 00:12, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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