Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenny Benkowski


 * 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The result was withdrawn by nominator. The article has been substantially improved and all comments were in favor of keeping it. This is no longer a deletion candidate. Thanks for the excellent work. --Tony Sidaway 06:53, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Kenny Benkowski
This article is completely unsourced and appears to be about a very minor wrestler. A proposed deletion tag was removed a couple of days ago but the article remains unsourced. The subject of the article is probably a living person, as no death date is given and the birth date (if accurate) would make him seventy years old. I propose that this article should be deleted if it remains unsourced. If this discussion is closed without deleting, without being sourced, I think it would be reasonable to set a timescale during which the article should be adequately sourced according to the biographies of living persons policy. --Tony Sidaway 17:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. No longer unsourced. 1ne 09:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * That's good as far as it goes. The birthdate is sourced to imdb and the weight  is on "Obsessed with Wrestling".  But the rest of it?  "Kenny was a natural athlete in high school, lettering in both football and shotput. When he graduated from high school in 1955, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he found employment as a factory worker."  That's unsourced.  "After his military tour..." well a man of his generation might have been drafted, but we don't really know.  "To help pay the bills, Kenny started his own landscape business, which is where he got the "Sodbuster" nickname..."  Unsourced.  "He never left the midwest area, as he was rooted in the area with his landscape business, wife, and three children. He continued working for the AWA nearly thirty years until they went out of business."  Completely unsourced.  If I trim this to sourced information only (and I shall have to do so if this is kept), it'll look something like this:
 * Kenny Benkowski (billed as "Sodbuster" Kenny Jay) (born 27 March, 1937, Holdingford, Minnesota) was an American AWF wrestler based in the American MidWest, mainly the WTCN studios in Minneapolis. His official fighting weight was 228 lbs (16 stone 4 lb, or 103 Kg).  In a January, 1972 article Wrestling Monthly said he had "lost more matches than he has won" but that he had a recent victory against John the Greek, a wrestler from Chicago.  His partnership with Verne Gagne and The Crusher had gained him his biggest victory to date, against Larry Hennig, Harley Race and Chris Markoff, all three of whom had in the past scored individual victories when matched against Benkowski.
 * --Tony Sidaway 13:10, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. If you google "Kenny Jay", you're going to find more stuff about him, like:, and . 1ne 19:54, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep now that the article cites its sources. &mdash;Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 01:37, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I have now provided properly-formatted references for the claims given in the article, as well as cleaning it up. 1ne 01:38, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, the article now has reliable sources and the WP:BLP concerns seem to have been satisfied. --Core desat 01:45, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, if the ony questions were blp and sources, then those have been dealt with.-- Wizardman 01:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Many thanks to User:1ne who has improved this article immeasurably. I no longer consider this article to be deletable.  Excellent work!  As this is a clear "keep" I'm withdrawing this listing. --Tony Sidaway 06:53, 29 April 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.