Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russell Kanning


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Wizardman 14:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Russell Kanning

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As it stands there are no significant reliable sources and no way to create and article with meaningful content with verifiable information. Notability was called into question and a request was put forward to provide sources. None have been forthcoming. The only sources to date have either been from those that fail the criteria set forth in wikipedia for reliable sources or ones that provide trivial references to the subject (one only had him in a caption of a photo). Only one source is both reliable and non-trivial and is a short article about attempting to trespass at an airport. Per basic wikipedia policy and particularly policy on biographies of living persons this article should be deleted. Tmtoulouse (talk) 18:45, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Delete. I have not been able to locate much of anything on this individual that would rate an article. I googled him and I see no links to anything that I recognized as a reliable source. I am willing to be persuaded otherwise if there's enough material out there that I missed. Famspear (talk) 19:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. The article from The Wire (a weekly newspaper published in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) discusses the airport incident (among other things), and counts as a reliable source. So does the USA Today article. I think notability is established. Eastmain (talk) 21:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Hampshire-related deletion discussions.   —Eastmain (talk) 21:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.   —Eastmain (talk) 21:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep. The person who is proposing this AfD deleted some reliable (and some less-reliable) sources from the article prior to issuing this claim (see the page's discussion page). One of the sources he deleted was a Boston Phoenix article that starts off describing his airport protest and includes the following quote which speaks to his (admittedly limited) notoriety and notability:
 * In most places, Kanning would be dismissed as an extremist. But here at PorcFest 2005, he was a celebrity and a hero.

Some of the other sources that were deleted were used to provide additional background information about Kanning's protests, or to back up statements about them that are not actually matters of any real-world accuracy dispute; the controversy over the reliability of these sources therefore seems pedantic and manufactured. -Moorlock (talk) 22:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Other places Kanning's protests have been covered include the Concord Monitor (e.g. 17 Jan 2007, 5 June 2005, 7 June 2005) and New Hampshire Business Review (e.g. 9 June 2006, 24 June 2005) -Moorlock (talk) 22:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete A few stunts does not notability make. Blaxthos ( t / c ) 22:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Kittybrewster  &#9742;  09:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Not WP:N protestor with isolated minor coverage in local weeklies. Not exactly at the Fred Phelps/Fathers For Justice level. Plutonium27 (talk) 17:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, notability as an activist needs more than this. --Dhartung | Talk 21:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.