Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karl Otteson


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The result was delete--Ymblanter (talk) 07:06, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Karl Otteson

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Single-sourced WP:BLP of a person whose primary claim of notability is as a campaign manager for a couple of politicians (mostly unsuccessful), without enough substance to demonstrate that he was in any significant way a notable campaign manager. This isn't a role that gets a person past WP:NPOL, so it's WP:GNG or bust — and per the quality of sourcing that's been provided here, it's bust. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 04:08, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I was unable to find any coverage of this person in reliable sources. The reference in the article is to an unlinked 30 year old piece in the New York.Times. I am a NYT subscriber, and my archive search came up dry. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  04:17, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - The discription in the article doesn't make him noteworthy. Also I searched for him on Highbeam, found 2 articles on Daily Herald (Arlington Heights) from 2005 where a Karl Otteson is briefly named as the district's attorney, but nothing else. Only 500 hits on google. I noticed this page Karl Ottesen, which was deleted 3 days ago. -- Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 07:37, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it appears that the same editor created both spellings more or less simultaneously (and they both claim to be the same person), and then that version got speedied but this one hung around. Weird. Bearcat (talk) 15:36, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete As a campaign manager for a successful U.S. Senate campaign in a contentious race, there is a claim of notability, but the paucity of sources is the problem. The correct spelling appears to be "Karl Ottesen", but there are no meaningful articles about him in such publications as The New York Times where the races listed were covered thoroughly but he is mentioned only in passing. Other searches using that spelling also don't turn up anything. Alansohn (talk) 16:15, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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