Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred Lasby


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The result was delete. Mojo Hand (talk) 15:12, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Fred Lasby

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Biography of a person whose notability claim (purportedly holding the Guinness World Record for the oldest pilot ever to fly around the world) is not adequately sourced. As always, people are not handed an automatic notability freebie just because the article has the words "Guinness World Record" in it -- between the ways Guinness can be manipulated into conferring records for inconsequential silly things and the way records can be outdone in the future and/or simply conferred on the wrong person at the time due to inadequate research, simply holding a Guinness record (or claiming to) is not "inherently" notable enough to exempt a person from having to pass WP:GNG on genuine media coverage in real reliable sources. But apart from one news article while the flight was underway (thus failing to verify that he actually holds a Guinness record, as it was published before the record would have been conferred), the only other source here is his standard paid-inclusion obituary in the newspaper classifieds, which is not notability-supporting coverage at all -- and while there were two other sources previously here, one was an unrecoverable dead link from a community hyperlocal in his own hometown whose content is entirely impossible to verify at all, and the other was a completely unreliable directory listing on the self-published website of a non-notable organization, so neither of them were doing anything to help. Nothing stated here is enough to exempt him from having to have a lot more reliable source coverage in real media than this. Bearcat (talk) 14:42, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:42, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:42, 15 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete I punched his name into Newspapers.com and there were a couple public interest stories. Basically we have a WP:1E where neither the event nor the participant in the event is notable beyond a news cycle. Fails WP:NOTNEWS. SportingFlyer  T · C  22:59, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:GNG. Suonii180 (talk) 11:09, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails notability tests. Like SportingFlyer, I also spent some time searching for this person on Newspapers.com and could not find anything that would meet WP standards for notability.  RecycledPixels (talk) 17:01, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: Doesn't meet notability criteria. Fails GNG. TheDreamBoat (talk) 01:01, 19 May 2021 (UTC)


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