Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin M. O'Donnell


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:12, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Kevin M. O'Donnell

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Subject does not meet notability guidelines, nor does the single primary reference support any of the large amount of text in a WP:BLP article. This situation has lingered for 4-6 years without any attempt to fix these problems. AndroidCat (talk) 18:51, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * keep seems an interesting character in range of documented interesting events: AOL etc... Unless this is untrue?


 * Delete no/far too few reliable sources - with reference to the 'keep' above, we just don't have enough sources to tell if it's true or not. I searched for his name, -wikipedia, with AOL (and without "aol.com"), getting just 10 hits, of which 3 seemed to be mirrors of this, and the rest broken or useless; one was an iviewit.tv listing of defendants in a federal complaint related to AOL, so that part could be true, but. It's hopeless, I'm afraid. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:42, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. fails WP:BIO --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 20:58, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete I've seen many technical articles with few references, that are otherwise excellent, and no one proposes them for AfD. However this is a WP:BLP article where the bar is set much higher. BLP articles are required to have high quality sources for everything. From the one primary source, about the most that can be said about Kevin M. O'Donnell is that he was involved in the founding of Earthlink (anything more would be Original Research), and that's rather short even for a stub article. If someone could provide some references, then I'd support keeping as much of the article as covered by those references, but it's been four years with no action. AndroidCat (talk) 15:12, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

the article is interesting and it is certainly true. The problem with getting online references for things like this is that a lot of this was not documented online — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.215.240.92 (talk) 19:11, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:19, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
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