Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Cousins


 * 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. Non-admin closure.  Jujutacular  T · C 07:34, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Tom Cousins

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Non-notable business man/real estate developer. Has a few arguable assertions of notability due to redesigning a gold course. There are no references and no real indicator that the article's subject comes close to meeting the notability requirements of WP. Fred the Oyster (talk) 18:20, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Additionally there seems to be an awful lot of name dropping going on in the article, yet none supported by references. Once the 'famous' names are removed very little seems to be left. --Fred the Oyster (talk) 18:22, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:45, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:45, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. mainly due to notability concerns, but parts of it look VERY hoaxy to me. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 22:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hoaxy? Which part? --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:BLP1E viol. Misterdiscreet (talk) 23:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Large developer in Atlanta, including some very important landmarks. Owner of an NHL and NBA team. Reading the one source I added makes it fairly obvious that he'll easily pass WP:BIO; I have no doubt there are more, and will hunt for a couple tomorrow.  References to BLP1E are pretty puzzling. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Here's another one (not incorporated into ariticle yet): http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2001/03/05/focus1.html. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:32, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep: Notable business executive that has subject of much coverage, as became immediately apparent to me when I stumbled across Articles for deletion/Cousins Properties (2nd nomination).--Milowent (talk) 15:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Click the Google news search at the top of the AFD. Read through the summaries.  The first result is talking about this guy.  Plenty of news mention for him.   D r e a m Focus  15:38, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mike Cline (talk) 23:04, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep, unless I have lost my mind, the Google News results above confirm that Mr Cousins is a major ATL businessman, owned pro team(s), etc. Abductive  (reasoning) 08:19, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep A quick glance at the google news results shows that he has been mentioned many times in primary sources. This AFD should be withdrawn.Repo-Box (talk) 16:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. The coverage of this guy, in reliable sources, is significant. --Mkativerata (talk) 22:15, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Pretty obvious that many sources exist. A fact unknown to many is that sportswriters are among the hardest working journalists as they often have only a few games to write about 5-7 days a week. Why is this meaningful here? On almost any major sports team the owner is almost certainly to be written about, regularly. This subject owned two teams. Add that to his real estate work, which itself is almost certainly covered to some extent in the city's/region's business press and you have plenty to at least start a stub. There are plenty of leads here and sourcing to confirm notability.  -- Banj e  b oi   13:53, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I am strongly of the opinion that this man is notable. As well as the sources that I have been adding, I do know that he was mentioned in Forbes in the 1970s (though I can't access the article online) and that he has been active in Atlanta politics. There's something about some sort of Crusade in the biography material I've sourced in which Cousins is mentioned prominently, but I don't quite understand it so I'm not adding that material at present.ManicSpider (talk) 06:42, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per current sources. - DustFormsWords (talk) 07:04, 16 March 2010 (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.