Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Kester

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 10:51, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Howard Kester
Fails to establish notability. Also the fact that he worked for the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union (STFU) makes it sound like a hoax. Radiant! 11:03, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I will happily admit that I had never heard of Kester before, but a small amount of searching brings up the following book: Robert F. Martin, Howard Kester and the Struggle for Social Justice in the South, 1904-77 (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1991). A look at a review of the book in the Journal of Southern History 1992 also confirms the thing about the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU). / u p p l a n d 16:46, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This article establishes his notablility, and the STFU thing is just an amusing coincidence in acronyms. EggplantWizard 16:52, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yep, keep. There're only 26^4 four-letter acronyms, after all, and he seems notable enough. DS 17:06, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. would you please at least do a google on someone before listing them.  ALKIVAR &trade;[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 21:17, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Please keep down the swearing? Fyi, the first things that came up in google are an essay site, a golf club, a radio station, a university, and a church. That didn't sound very coherent. And I figured the STFU was likely a hoax. Evidently I was wrong, but that's what the VfD procedure is for. Radiant! 22:31, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Extremely obvious keep, although I must admit this is the most hillarious VfD nomination I've voted on all week. No &mdash; scratch that &mdash; all month.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 21:58, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * See comment above. And for fun, try googling 'stfu' :) Radiant! 22:31, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Southern Tenant Farmer's Union for example pulls up "Results 1 - 100 of about 92,700 for Southern Tenant Farmer's Union." proof its not a hoax.  ALKIVAR &trade;[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 22:35, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe so but a Google search for "Howard Kester" with "Southern Tenant Farmer's Union" pulls up only 26 Google hits. I'm going to vote Delete on this. Megan1967 02:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and for future reference, vfd voters please familairize yourselves with this article. Gamaliel 07:19, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Notable farmers activist. Article needs to be wikified. I second Gamaliel's call for civility nd wikiquette. Capitalistroadster 10:09, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ridiculous nomination - David Gerard 23:29, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I had already explained and withdrawn the nomination before you posted this. It is not ridiculous, it was merely mistaken. Please be civil about it. Radiant! 11:18, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Legitimate article. Acronym's similarity to a common crude abbreviation is just an amusing coincidence.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 00:59, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, spurious notability. JamesBurns 10:29, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.