Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Orlando Serrell


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The result was keep per sourcing and improvements. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 02:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Orlando Serrell

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 * Delete for lack of either verification or notability. Doczilla 06:19, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a biographical article that makes no claims as to the notability of its subject, WP:BIO refers. (aeropagitica) 08:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, I added a source. Acquired savant abilities (as opposed to innate savant abilities) are rather rare, and as such I believe that this makes Serrell notable.  Lankiveil 10:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC).
 * Comment- is there anyother sources avaliable- I think multiple reliable sources would be beneficial and may infulence more keep agreements? Thunderwing 12:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Being an acquired savant, I think, makes one notable enough--but I do think there should be an article written, or an addition to savant, about acquired savants, so that Orlando and others (like Daniel Tammet ) have some context within Wikipedia itself. Anyhow, I think if Orlando's properly sourced (pretty easy) and categorized so that people can find him, he merits a mention. Wysdom 16:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, this brings up a rather glaring deficiency in the current entry for Savant which goes to a disambiguation page (all good so far) that channels Savant Syndrome (the umbrella category for both autistic and acquired savantism (is that even a word?)) into Autistic Savant... BUT (you're all still with me right?) Savant Syndrome should be the main article, comprised of two sub-parts describing the autistic and acquired savant. <.< Let me sleep on this before I volunteer... >.> >.< Wysdom 16:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete If someone were to write an article about "savant (acquired)" then perhaps Serrell could be cited on that page as an example, but an article specifically about Serrell is not justified. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brianlucas (talk • contribs) 22:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC).
 * keep but unsure. I added two links - one is an episode summary from the TV documentary series "Beautiful Minds", and the episode summary itself mentions this person. So he was on an episode of a TV documentary about savants, which has aired in 20 countries. I also tend to think, if true, being an acquired savant is notable enough, per Wysdom. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 23:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * comment - I removed the OR and unreferenced tags, as all the content is now covered by the sources. Feel free to fact-tag what you feel is still in dispute, however. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 23:51, 21 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.