Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Svend Ovesen

Article Svend Ovesen listed on WP:VFD July 2 to July 10 2004, consensus was to delete. Discussion:

Delete for same reasons as for the other article about this man. - Lucky 6.9 21:04, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Looks like the author is trying to evade deletion. Delete. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 22:30, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - too POV; "the best pilot in the Caribbean" does not lend itself to NPOV. Page was also added to List of people who died in aviation-related incidents; should be deleted there as well if this page is deleted. -- Grunt (talk) 15:14, 2004 Jul 3 (UTC)
 * Keep. The pilot details are significant to this accident, one of the few that year to involve a commercial-rated pilot flying a commercial aircraft. Commercial aircraft don't crash very often due to flying on non-visual flight conditions and it's a useful example of how even capable pilots can die if they aren't careful. Jamesday 21:12, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - if a vote is already taken then it is a speedy delete candidate. Where's the first vote? -  T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  03:39, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Because I didn't want the vote to be close to tied when the time on VfD was up. If the article were simply about the accident, it could be included in an article on aviation crashes.  A discussion of aviation disasters, why they occur, frequency, etc., would be fine, but, given the sincere, but misguided, memorial effort, I have to vote delete. Geogre 18:34, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Keep: There are several articles os things like "Love and marriage", a TV series that is important to american people but does not have any importance to us latin-americans. I have noted that in Wikipedia the standards of notability and importance are always given from an USA point of view. If some one who is not important to people in USA it does not means that the person is not important in other parts of the world. And Google is not the perfect judge for history or people.

One example: The caribbean pilot may be of little importance in USA. But Rudy Giuliani, some obscure north-american mayor, has an article on him. I bet that if I wrote an article on the mayor of my city, it would be deleted. Because none of Wikipedia administrators have heard a word about him. "He´s just an obscure man from Brazil", thay would think.

The encyclopedia is "world-wide". You can not judge the notability of people by north-american standards. "Married with children", "Rudy Giuliani" - no one of those subjects is important to me or anyone in my country. And we do not ask them to be deleted.

Opinion by: Fabioburch