Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Stapleton


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 03:38, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Scott Stapleton

 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

Article was speedied as an A7 because it didn't really make a claim of notability at all; it reads more like a memorial page to a dead friend than anything else. Creator subsequently posted to my talk page yesterday, stating that because the subject once spent one summer interning for the US Department of State and cowrote a paper on the 2002 terrorist incident in Bali (although the article incorrectly stated that the paper was about India), his notability came from the as yet unsourced suggestion that his paper was strategically relevant to yesterday's terrorist incident in Mumbai. (The article was created in August.) Article contains no real sources, linking only to a standard death notice of the type that absolutely every deceased person gets in the newspaper, two profiles on college sports websites (only one of which provides any actual detail about him as a person) and the Bali paper itself (but with no independent sources whatsoever to suggest that the paper ever had any documented impact on diplomatic or strategic responses to terrorism.) I still don't see any actual notability here, but since the speedy was disputed I'm bringing this here on procedural grounds. No !vote from me. Bearcat (talk) 16:08, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, the college rowing national bronze medal probably saves this from being speedied, but this person is just not notable in any significant way. NawlinWiki (talk) 16:54, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:05, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Athletic claim is minor, and the other claim isn't even asserted, much less cited, in the article. gnfnrf (talk) 20:32, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 1 December 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.