Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dobie Gillis Williams


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The result of the debate was Speedy Keep nominator withdrew --Aranda 56 20:32, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Dobie Gillis Williams
Being a convicted murderer or a death row prisioner is not notable. No other obvious claim to notability. For a similar AfD, see Articles_for_deletion/Charles_Thacker. Regards, Ben Aveling 10:28, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep &#8766; Mr. Williams is notable as a consequence of being one of two death row inmates covered extensively in Helen Prejean's book The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. Having half a book devoted to you, written by a notable author, conveys notability. → Ξxtreme Unction  {yak ł blah } 13:44, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Is his name really Dobie Gillis? Weird. Oops, sorry, off-topic. I think a cite to Prejean's book would be good here. rodii 15:36, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Prejean's book is mentioned at the bottom of the Dobie Gillis Williams article. → Ξxtreme Unction {yak ł blah } 15:47, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * So it is. I think that suffices for notability. rodii 16:06, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. My vote is biased since I originally created the article. I fail to see how Williams is not “notable.” He was tried, convicted, and executed for murder. As recent news stories tell us, he is 1 of only 1000 people to fit this description since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States. Further as the subject of Sister Helen’s new book, I believe the claim has been made that the State of Louisiana executed an innocent man in his case. (I was hoping that someone who actually read Sister Helen’s book would eventually put more detail about this claim in the article eventually.) With the ongoing debate in this county about capital punishment, IMO every person executed in this country is “notable” enough to receive an article. I have also recently created articles for Antonio James, John A. Brown, Jr., Feltus Taylor, and Leslie Dale Martin. I had intended to create an article for every entry on List of individuals executed in Louisiana. However, if this article and the others, now that I brought them to everyone’s attention, do not survive AfD, then I will stop editing them and find something else to do. Nolamgm 16:32, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep as per EU. --YixilTesiphon Say hello Consider my Wikiproject idea 17:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Verifiable and notable. Capitalistroadster 18:14, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Nomination withdrawn - clear consensus to keep. Ben Aveling 19:14, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


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