Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evan O'Dorney


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — Yashtalk stalk 21:11, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Evan O'Dorney

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This mostly a WP:BLP1E stemming from his winning the Scripps Spelling Bee. I don't believe being a Putnam fellow or whatever other acolates he has meets WP:ACADEMIC. It's a stub article and has been this way for years. Prisencolin (talk) 21:18, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:39, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. GS citations show no solid achievement yet (but that may come): WP:Too soon. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:56, 22 January 2017 (UTC).
 * Delete per WP:TOOSOON / WP:NOTNEWS. Half of the article is about the interview incident, which appears to be trivia. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:46, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The article has been substantially revised. That may have been true at the time the article was nominated, but it is far from true now. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:52, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:46, 23 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep. He's not notable as a grad student, obviously, but he doesn't have to be. There are plenty of mainstream news sources about him, for multiple events in his life, including being the subject of CNN stories twice (the spelling bee and later the Intel Science Search). And even the silly spelling bee interview video is still being mentioned in major national media eight years later . He clearly and obviously passes WP:GNG. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It's only WP:BLP1E. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:03, 23 January 2017 (UTC).
 * What part of my "for multiple events in his life" did you not read? —David Eppstein (talk) 03:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * PS In this 2013 book the National Research Council calls him "as famous for academic excellence as any student can be". If they say he's famous, who are we to argue? —David Eppstein (talk) 03:44, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Original work in maths is needed, first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.0.228 (talk) 10:29, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Why? Barack Obama has written academic publications; do you think that means he needs to be notable as a writer of academic publications to be notable at all? Also, he actually does have plenty of publications and preprints representing original work in mathematics, but they don't contribute to his notability yet. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:54, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per recent article improvements. I'm not entirely convinced that child prodigies are notable per se, but this article sufficiently demonstrates that GNG has been met. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:55, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - He is mentioned in multiple mainstream sources and clearly meets WP:GNG. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:47, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, per David's argument that he meets the GNG. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 10:08, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Changing vote to keep as nominator. Other editors have shown that this should probably meet GNG.--Prisencolin (talk) 10:35, 26 January 2017 (UTC)


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