Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Edward Willoughby


 * 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 redirect to National CleanUp Day. Any content worth merging is available from the history. Randykitty (talk) 16:15, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

William Edward Willoughby

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The subject appears to be notable only in the context of National CleanUp Day, to which I redirected it. I'll revise my the statement of "virtually all coverage is about National CleanUp Day with some incidental mentions of Willoughby", to "every single non-self-published source is about National CleanUp Day, with some incidental mentions of Willoughby". There is no sourcing basis here for a separate article; it should be redirected. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:30, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:30, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: his discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:30, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Elmidae. Agreed that most of the coverage is about National CleanUp Day and he is the founder of the organization. In addition to National CleanUp Day, he is on the Board of Directors of World CleanUp Day - a separate organization. He's also been instrumental in promoting volunteer cleanup activities and concepts in the US and globally. I would suggest that he's notable and recognized in the important area of keeping plastic and litter out of the ocean. BTW, I've not worked on a discussion page for deletion or redirecting in the past and will work on formatting. Thanks for your understanding have and have a GREAT day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevejewett (talk • contribs) 00:26, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Added additional reference material including articles discussing World CleanUp Day and Clean Trails organizations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevejewett (talk • contribs) 00:47, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

One additional thought, World CleanUp Day is considered to be the largest single day volunteer event. If the country leader, "continent" representative, and Board Member for that organization isn't notable, what is? Can you name one bigger than World Cleanup Day 2019, 21 September 2019, with 21 million people across 180 countries.[3] Over 100000 tons of waste was collected.[5] Also, adding additional link for Earth Day video.
 * Comment Notability is demonstrated by in-depth coverage of the individual by multiple reliable independent sources. Do you have any that are about the subject of the article rather than organizations or events he’s associated with? Mccapra (talk) 06:17, 18 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment Hi Mccapra. Thanks and will work on getting more. My first time adding a living person. Have a GREAT day! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevejewett (talk • contribs) 00:21, 20 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment Stevejewett has a conflict of interest as that name matches the co-founder of National Cleanup Day who is a major contributor to that article as well as this one. They need to make a connected contributor declaration. MB 02:24, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge Merge with the Cleanup Day page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lesscynical (talk • contribs) 22:13, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: In particular, this would benefit from additional discussion on the notability of the subject based on existing guidelines.
 * Comment Stevejewett added COI declaration on March 23, 2021 as requested by MB. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevejewett (talk • contribs) 00:47, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — MarkH21talk 01:50, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, as the article is well sourced, and person seems worthy of notice as well. Davidgoodheart (talk) 23:45, 26 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete - Have changed to actually thinking this should be deleted as of now. If better sourcing are found it can be re-created. BabbaQ (talk) 18:17, 30 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect to National CleanUp Day. MarioGom (talk) 09:12, 2 April 2021 (UTC)