Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Earl Hughes


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The result was   keep per WP:SNOW. JohnCD (talk) 15:01, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Robert Earl Hughes

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Delete. Supposedly once the world's heaviest man, but I'm not sure thats a legitimate claim to notability in the encyclopedic sense. The lack of substantial coverage from reliable third party publications is troublesome as well. JBsupreme ( talk ) ✄ ✄ ✄	 07:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per the substantial coverage in reliable sources. See this article from the Los Angeles Times (titled "1041-Pound Man Flying to New York for TV"), this article from Kentucky New Era (titled: "It's All in How You Look at It: He Kept Growing"), this article from The Miami News (titled: Casket for World's Largest Man). Hughes receives a mention in a Sports Illustrated article ("And who could forget Robert Earl Hughes? Certainly not his tailor, for the 1,067-pound Breman, Ind., native (and world's heaviest man) always wore bib overalls in Guinness and was buried—as every new edition felt compelled to report—in a modified piano case.") This 1966 article from the Los Angeles Times confirms that the Guiness Book of World Records considered Hughes to be the heaviest man of all time. A book has been written about Hughes; see Big heart: remembering Robert Earl Hughes, 1926-1958 by Kenneth W. Faig. Hughes is also written about in Incredible! by Kevin McFarland and Luis Dominguez. Here is a full-feature article in Life magazine. Hughes passes Notability (people). Cunard (talk) 07:51, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep due to reliable sources as per above. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:53, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This article has been nominated for rescue. Silver  seren C 08:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment I have tagged this article for rescue. Silver  seren C 08:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I have added in the sources that Cunard gave above and formatted things a little. He is clearly notable. Silver  seren C 08:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Cunard. There are significant sources to establish notability, in line with WP:BASIC. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  11:25, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - world's heaviest man is clearly notable, just like the world's oldest, shortest and tallest. And it is well sourced, and there is a ton of coverage. Green Cardamom (talk) 15:34, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Reasonably sourced (and though this is not a keep criteria, I distinctly remember reading about him in Guiness books and Ripley's Believe or Not as a child). OhNo itsJamie Talk 18:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * JB you ninny!!!: LOL.  No doubt you just read my blogpost..  There is loads of coverage of this man, he was incredibly well-known.  KEEP.  My point as regards to donna was that of a recency effect  ETA:  Perhaps you nominated before I posted, but that's a weird coincidence!  Or actually, I cited him in the donna simpson AfD, you probably saw that.--Milowent (talk) 18:55, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Clearly notable. Passes WP:BIO. Warrah (talk) 21:28, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Give me a break.  Like Robert Wadlow, he's well-known to anyone who ever picked up the Guinness book, which a lot of people do tend to think of as a "reliable" reference work.  A news search  suggests that he was notable in the 1940s and the 1950s and the 1960s and the 1970s and the 1980s and the 1990s and the 2000s etc. etc.  We don't vote on whether he "ought to be" notable.  WP:SNOW for this one. Mandsford (talk) 13:13, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Spend a brief moment clicking on Google news BEFORE you nominate something. I see results immediately on him being the World's Fattest Man, he quite famous.   D r e a m Focus  22:08, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment It's getting pretty snowy around here. Mind if someone or I could close this as snowball keep? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:22, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Go right ahead. :) With this many Keep votes and no delete votes besides the nominator, it's clearly a case for WP:SNOW. Silver  seren C 23:47, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
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