Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goossen family


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The result was   delete. Drmies (talk) 18:17, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Goossen family

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The article is primarily about one member of the family whose notability is far from established. Non-notable promoter. Peter Rehse (talk) 14:22, 3 June 2014 (UTC)


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 * Comment - This is an unusual situation. I looked up Joe Goossen...there are a lot of hits. This link shows quite a few articles in the LA Times. Dan has just as many. However, I don't really see any articles detailing the Goossens as a family. Now, I'm not any sort of boxing expert, so I can't say how notable these guys are individually, but it just seems like an odd choice to lump them together as well as it seems like it could constitute original research. Typically the articles we have about famous families have sources that cover their notability as a group. It seems like the best we can do here is to detail their notability of individuals. Thoughts? Bali88 (talk) 17:08, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
 * You are right it is unusual - perhaps we could create individual people articles and see if they meet notability. I don't believe they would but there would be no harm demerging this article.Peter Rehse (talk) 17:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete: Dan and Joe have a little notability, but an article on "the family" is just weird. Regards, George Custer&#39;s Sabre (talk) 17:40, 3 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete I don't see enough to show that any of the family members are individually notable, much less claiming the entire family is. Papaursa (talk) 18:36, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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