Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larry Perino


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The result was   delete. Stifle (talk) 15:34, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Larry Perino

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The individual who is the subject of this article fails WP:N per WP:ONEEVENT because he appears to be significant (for WP article purposes) only for his participation in Battle of Mogadishu (1993). While it would be better than a stand-alone article, I also think redirecting this article to Battle of Mogadishu (1993) would be inappropriate because the individual is not mentioned in that article. He is mentioned in Black Hawk Down (film) as a participant in the battle, but only peripherally. A prod on this article was removed. Novaseminary (talk) 19:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because of the same failure per WP:ONEEVENT. Like Perino, prods on these pages were removed.

And though the prods had not been removed from the following at the time I created this AfD, they were in place for the same reason, so I replaced the prods with this AfD as well.



Novaseminary (talk) 19:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:47, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:47, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete as non-notable military personnel, having reviewed all 7. As regards a redirect, no evidence at this point that they were particularly central to the Battle of Mogadishu, nor that they will be looked up enough to warrant a redirect to that article. Specific comments:
 * Ed Yurek - having taken cover in a school building for a few hours is not "notable"; Matt Eversmann - Bronze star, large bulk of uncited unreferenced claims, including "lecturing all over the worldd" ("lecturing on ones life" is not a basis of notability either); Paul Howe - authorship does not reach level needed for notability; John Stebbins "soldier convicted for rape" isn't sufficient for notability.


 * In each of these evidence of sufficient notability is lacking. WP:NOT, WP:N, WP:BIO, WP:BLP1E refer. Most of the notice is either showing they are routine people mentioned in passing for one event, or coverage of a film of that event, but in either case no good evidence they are notable on their own merit. Perhaps a redirect for one or two but lacking good evidence the claims that might underpin even a redirect cannot be evaluated. FT2 (Talk 01:52, 9 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete -- fails notability and meets criteria for wp:oneevent; thus not sufficient for inclusion in WP. N2e (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: I don't believe that Perino, Sizemore, Stebbins, Yurek, Nelson and Howe meet WP:N. However, I'm not so sure about Eversmann given the amount of coverage his character receives in the movie and in the book. Also there are appearances on national television and his own book published by Random House (ISBN 978-0-345-45966-4), so one would assume that it might be possible to find enough information to fix the issues with this article. Having said that, currently the article is a walking BLP issue waiting to happen and if others believe that he doesn't meet WP:GNG or WP:BIO, I'm not going to disagree. — AustralianRupert (talk) 09:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
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