Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam McDonald


 * 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 Keep.  ¿¡Exir  Kamalabadi?! Join Esperanza! 09:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Sam McDonald
Unverifiable. —Quarl (talk) 2006-10-22 07:16Z 


 * Delete smells like a big hoax. A google search for "Sam McDonald" tallest brings up nothing. --Daniel Olsen 07:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Actually, Sam McDonald appears to be an actual person. I haven't found anything about him exhibiting himself, but he appears to have been real, and fairly notable in his time - see, for instance this link at the National Portrait Gallery. --Brianyoumans 08:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep 6'10" in those days very remarkable, but not in itself worthy of Wikipedia entry. BUT, height plus National Portrait Gallery pictures plus royal connections does it for me.  Emeraude 10:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep sorta notable - CrazyRussian talk/email 12:30, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep he is notable enough. --Alex (Talk) 12:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Emeraude M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 (T 16:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * As the hoax tagger, boy is my face red. But I have to go with neutral for now, as I'm not convinced that he's featured in multiple non-trivial reliable sources.  I don't know whether the clandonald.org source provided by Brianyoumans is reliable, and I can't decide whether the source I just found and added to the article is non-trivial.  Pan Dan 18:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I suspect the BBC text is based on the other sources, from the content. The etching of "Big Sam" is different from the one in the NPG, perhaps that one is the Kay etching that was used on the recruiting poster, mentioned in the Clan newsletter article?  There must be more sources on him, probably off-line. --Brianyoumans 20:51, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, here is a better view of the Kay etching from the BBC link. It also gives a tiny bit more info, mostly that there are 3 Kay etchings of Sam McDonald. --Brianyoumans 20:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. I wish people wouldn't nominate saying "unverifiable" when what they actually seem to mean is "I haven't heard of him so he can't be notable". He seems to have been notable enough to have been mentioned in several sources. -- Necrothesp 00:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the problem here was that "Sam McDonald" was a very common name, and much of the info in the article was not verifiable (or at least I have not been able to verify it.) What worked for me initially was searching on the name and the dates, which were correct as it turned out. --Brianyoumans 02:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * keep please this one is notbale and not really a hoax Yuckfoo 02:05, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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