Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Runar Søgaard


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn with no outstanding delete votes. (non-admin closure) • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Runar Søgaard

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Fails WP:GNG (particular focus on WP:BIO1E). Couldn't turn up any further evidence on notability with a search although this isn't entirely surprising given my complete lack of knowledge of Norwegian. Move to Runar Søgaard incident may be an alternative but I don't think that's reasonable either. Rushyo  Talk  19:21, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. --- Later Days!  Cameron11598  (Talk) 20:36, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 *  Comment Keep - Søgaard appears to be famous in Norway and Sweden. Just had a browse through 'News' (link above) and had no trouble finding dozens of newspaper articles on him in every year from 2000 to 2010 (poss exc. of 2002) including in Norway's national Dagbladet (eg 14 Feb 2001, 10 May 2007, 3 Apr 2009) and Sweden's national Dagens Nyheter (eg 24 Sep 2010), so a priori he seems undoubtedly notable and pace BLP1E it is definitely an ongoing fame. The Norwegian papers call him 'Runar' which suggests he's a household name. Chiswick Chap (talk) 22:01, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Big celebrity with long-lived fame, still the subject of newspaper stories this year, as well as many stories in the past. Islam controversy was just a small incident in his life.  I added some more refs, but if you Google there's loads from Norwegian and Swedish media. (His page on no.wikipedia.org links to a Geocities fan page, but don't hold that against him.) --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep There doesn't seem to be much on the Norwegian Wikipedia site: . Are you sure he is notable? But then again there isn't too much on his ex-wife Carola Häggkvist on the Norwegian site but quite a lot in the English version. By the way, your added refs help. I tend towards 'keep' now. Jason from nyc (talk) 13:49, 7 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I withdraw my nomination Evidently there was plenty of evidence I was unable to consider. I'll bear that in mind in future! - Rushyo  Talk  22:30, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
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