Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Breedlove


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The result was   delete. v/r - TP 01:45, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Robert Breedlove

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Subject fails the notability requirements of WP:BIO. Alaska's first internet cafe, which he founded, has received some media attention and may itself be notable but none of the sources discuss the founder, if they even mention his name. JohnInDC (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 14:33, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence of notability. None of the referenced sources even mentions Breedlove, except one, which is written by Breedlove. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:37, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - Anchorage Daily News article which is pictured states that Mr Breedlove was founder of Alaska's first cyber cafe. This was an great achievement for Alaska & Anchorage tourism.  Will be posting local Anchorage channel 2 news coverage from 11 Sep 1996 as soon as it arrives from archive which also states founder and how it has help put Alaska on the map. -- Amienutter (talk) 11:31, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Minimal if any notability. Does not pass WP:GNG as it is. Even with the presumed 15 minutes of fame on TV once, does not pass WP:BIO1E. Uʔ (talk) 15:55, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * A brief bio of the founder may be included in Surf City, An Internet Cafe, assuming someone writes that first. Uʔ (talk) 15:57, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Rcsprinter  (state)  19:37, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep A google search shows multiple hits to Surf City & Robert A Breedlove as founder — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.81.115.94 (talk • contribs)
 * Comment - NB, the foregoing IP appears to be the same individual as the article's author, Amienutter, who has already commented here. JohnInDC (talk) 12:06, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The IP was blocked as sock-puppet for one week; see Sockpuppet investigations/Amienutter. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 14:56, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alaska-related deletion discussions. RadioKAOS (talk) 14:47, 30 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - Speaking not only as a once-upon-a-time patron of Surf City, but someone who has been using the Internet since 1989, I could perhaps offer a different perspective. To me, this smacks of historical revisionism.  So Surf City was founded in 1996.  A whole lot of people in Alaska, and everywhere else for that matter, had jumped on the Internet bandwagon by 1996.  There were a number of Internet evangelists in Alaska for years by that point, most notably H. A. Boucher.  Boucher's activism can be amply verified by reliable sources, though what coverage was given to him was mostly on account of his stature in business and politics rather than his computer wizardry.  In comparison, the other late 1980s/early 1990s Internet evangelists in Alaska, myself included, were mostly a ragtag bunch of high school and college kids.  Lance Ahern, who founded the ISP Internet Alaska roughly four years before Surf City started, was far more of an Internet pioneer in Alaska than Breedlove.RadioKAOS (talk) 13:42, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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