Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pete Roche


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The result was   delete. NW ( Talk ) 14:02, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Pete Roche

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Sources are thin, and to my mind do not establish notability. In short "what makes this person worthy of having an article here"? I would change my mind if suitable references were available, but I don't see that they are. Rodhull andemu  00:28, 9 May 2010 (UTC) Delete. "helped to organise" rallies is his claim to fame but that is not enough for WP. Since he as active in the 70s and 80s there may be info about him in dead tree format rather than on the interweb. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:36, 10 May 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  15:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Weak Delete. The BBC News article is pretty good because is covers Pete Roche quite a lot, but that seems to be all. Find me more sources like this one and I might change to Keep. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.

Keep. Expanded and added another citation. Johnfos (talk) 18:30, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Keep. Going to be hard to expand, but Google Books/Web provides several mentions, I expect a little more material can be mined here, e.g.,, , , , , ,. Looking through searches for "Pete Roche" along with Greenpeace and/or SCRAM, there's evidence that his writings have been responded to, republished or anthologized, etc. --Joe Decker (talk) 07:18, 21 May 2010 (UTC) (minor fixes --Joe Decker (talk) 07:19, 21 May 2010 (UTC))
 * Weak Delete rereading sources, I agree that there is less there than I originally believed. My bad.  --Joe Decker (talk) 16:37, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Bradjamesbrown (talk) 04:01, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Doesn't meet the criteria of WP:NOTE (multiple, significant) Verbal chat  16:57, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Coverage does not appear to be significant.-- Pink Bull  18:26, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete of Joe Decker's sources, the first 3 are him just acting as a spokesperson for e.g. Greenpeace; the 4th has a bio about him, but isn't independent; and the last 2 are articles by him. By my understanding of the notability guidelines, that isn't nearly enough.  David V Houston (talk) 14:06, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
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