Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerry S. Rawls


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was KEEP. But we should understand that the article survives principally owing to his relation with Finisar, rather than having bought his name onto a building somewhere. Once Finisar is blue, standard practise would be to redirect+merge this article to that one. -Splash - tk 23:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Jerry S. Rawls
non-notable per WP:BIO. Vectro 02:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Anybody that gets a college of business at a major, accredited, and established university named after them is notable. Add in a dorm hall at yet another school of similiar, if not greater repute?  I'm inclined to keep, but weakly, since there doesn't seem to be much else about him.  But then, I doubt he's a publicity hound CEO anyway.  FrozenPurpleCube 04:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be kept also as not only does he have the building named after him but he is a current CEO of Finsar, even if he doesn't like to be in the spotlight. Jedlink 13:52, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Finisar doesn't seem notable enough to have an article, I don't see why its CEO should.  Besides, he's got buildings named after him not because he's notable, but because he forked over some cash. -David Schaich Talk/Cont 17:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Finisar probably should have an article, it's just nobody has bothered to do it. Whodathunk, more people care about Dragonball and Tribbles than companies doing over 300$ million in business. FrozenPurpleCube 03:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)


 * weak Keep Finisar meets WP:CORP even though we don't have an article on it yet and so he should be kept as the CEO of a notable corporation. JoshuaZ 21:15, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per notable enough for a college to be named after him Rawls College of Business and be a CEO. Arbusto 23:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Working in finance at a Big Ten University I know that one of the main factors in naming colleges or buildings after someone is mostly that they were a major benefactor in some way.  Every single building on our campus is named after someone and almost none of them would qualify as notable for Wikipedia.--Tony 00:20, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
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