Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gordon Kit Thorne


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The result was delete. --Core desat 03:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Gordon Kit Thorne

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An unencyclopedic article on a subject who fails WP:BIO. Entirely unverifiable, the only references provided are unpublished interviews with the subject's son, the owner of the the subject's copyrights, a geneologist and "Gordon Kit Thorne's Diaries" (also unpublished). Victoriagirl 18:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN (165 Google hits, nothing in Google Books, 1 hit in News Archives) plus nearly zero proper sourcing (a short paragraph on a site selling his works isn't enough). Gordonofcartoon 01:14, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. I add that "ARCA (Associate Royal Canadian Artist)", said to be one of Thorne's titles, appears not to exist outside this article. In fact, the only trace of this distinction on the web is found within a current ebay listing which quotes this very article. Victoriagirl 04:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment There's the Royal Canadian Academy, but no "Royal Canadian Artists" that I can find. I checked the RCA database to be sure; no Gordon Kit Thorne listed since 1880. Freshacconci 14:08, 5 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 13:52, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Totally NN Johnbod 14:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Unrelevant, wiki-illiterate. --Attilios 16:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, but improve greatly. --140.254.225.30 20:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.