Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Peter Hamilton


 * 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. JForget 23:29, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

William Peter Hamilton

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Non-notable memorial page. A single source to a notice of death and no context for a google books reference to a co-authored study in 1922 does not sufficiently address notability. Ash (talk) 15:28, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, of course. An obituary in the New York Times makes a person notable, of course this is just a stub, but a 5 nanosecond Google search shows lots of info here. Remember you not voting on the state of the stub, but on the subject himself. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 19:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep NYT obit. He ran the Wall Street Journal for twenty years. Just these two facts about a contemporary person would make his article very unlikely to be AfD'ed.  That notability is not temporary should be kept in mind.John Z (talk) 00:13, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 'Snow Keepsuggested. A NYT obit is by itself sufficient evidence of encyclopedic notability; one very reliable source such as this is sufficient.  & the ed. of the WSJ would be in any case, though it was not then as extraordinarily important as it had subsequently become. DGG (talk) 01:07, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * keeeeeep seriously, the fourth editor of The Wall Street Journal is being considered for deletion? Totally notable, historical, gng, journalist... you name it!--Paul McDonald (talk) 04:05, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Obviously notable.  In addition to the above reasons, how may authors have their work reprinted 70 years after their deaths?  Ample sources are available from GBooks. Edward321 (talk) 03:42, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - seems pretty straightforward. Per comments above, easily meets notability guidelines.-- Beloved Freak  22:30, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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