Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Watke (2nd nomination)


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The result was   -- Cirt (talk) 00:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC) delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Robert Watke
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The subject of this article does not meet WP:BIO. As the coverage he did receive was related to one event, the article also fails WP:BIO1E and WP:PERP. This person is very briefly mentioned in the testimony of one witness before an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing. I (or any of the editors in the last AfD) could find no other better sources. After the first AfD, there has been no improvement to the article, and it has sat tagged since June. I do not think there are better or additional sources to be found. ALXVA (talk) 15:17, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Smerge (selectively merge) (Similar to comments on the first AFD) a tiny bit of this related to the elevator incident to Grain elevator. In the target article, there is presently no mention of conflicts related to the market power of the railroads/grain elevator owners and the rise of cooperatively owned elevators. In the history of American agriculture the novel "The Octopus" by Norris also dealt with the monopoly power of the grain industry. This man is does not satisfy WP:BIO. He is alleged to have started a fire, but the outcome of his arrest is "unknown" according to the article. He gets a bare mention in some testimony, where the speaker was not sure of his name. I am not seeing multiple reliable and independent sources with significant coverage of Watke. The article has all this biographical detail of his ancestors and family which would be more at home at some genealogical website. Edison (talk) 21:34, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Commenting I like the idea to include the strife in the Grain elevator article. But I do not think this article should become a redirect there. The Grain elevator article would almost certainly not mention Watke by name because of WP:UNDUE meaning a redirect from Watke to Grain elevator would not meet any of the purposes of redirects as per WP:REDIRECT. ALXVA (talk) 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete, I can't find any sources and there's too little here to merge. --Nuujinn (talk) 22:44, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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