Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Worthington City Schools Distinguished Alumni


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The result was   delete. If someone wants to merge any of it I would be happy to userfy it to them. J04n(talk page) 01:19, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Worthington City Schools Distinguished Alumni

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This article, copied (with ORTS permission from the web site), partly duplicates the list of notable alumni in the individual schools and the WP articles on them for those people who have WP articles (or are obviously qualified for one), and is inappropriate content for the ones who would not meet our standards of notability (which is about half of them).

In both cases some of the content included here is promotional or puffery or unsourced judgements of value, or otherwise what we would not include the ones that do have WP need checking whether it's included there., The few we don't have that we should, such as T. Harding and J McConnell, I will start if I can find 3rd party sources other than the high school site,  DGG ( talk ) 16:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete, highly doubtful that this award is notable, as it was only given for three years and any coverage is going to be purely local (Worthington is one of many suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, so its school district is not even the largest or most prominent in its metro area). At best this is something to note in the recipients' articles (if they have one) and in the alumni lists of the two Worthington high schools. postdlf (talk) 17:17, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and Merge - The title of the article would imply that it's about an award but for the most part, it's about the people whom have received the award. The award itself does not seem to be notable on its own which is why I !vote delete.  Some of the people listed do appear to be notable and warrant their own articles.  The rest don't appear to be notable.  The merge portion of my !vote comes from my belief that the information about notable people should be merged into their already-existing article or into a new article about that person.  I considered assessing the notability of each person listed the article, in this AfD, but I don't feel that it would be productive to water down this discussion into arguments about the 22 subjects in this article.  I would like to know if someone plans on creating articles for the notable people who don't already have articles.  It would be a waste to lose everything but I'm not sure that, the article's author, is willing to create those individual articles and I won't ask anyone to do that work before this AfD ends.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  20:00, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Looking at them in sequence as listed, McConnell is certainly notable,as CEO of a major company.  Bonnell is not notable, unless there is more to his career than stated; Foster & Snouffer are not notable. Wick isn't unless the award is actually major. George Harding might be notable, depending on publications; H, Harding probably not. Fields not. Dambach probably not, unless his organization is  more notable that it seemed to be. Kessler maybe--journalists are hard to tell; Ball probably not, Fagerstrom definitely not; Sawyer, Knight, both maybe; Stanley, maybe--despite what this article says, he did not actually play for the Dolphina,. This articles covers only a few years--there are undoubtedly notable graduates before and after, but a/c its website, the list is no longer being added to.  If deleted, all the info is on the web site from which this article was copied, except the added references, most of which are live  and usable--which I will email to anyone who wants to work on any of them and needs them. As I said, I will myself do   a stub on Bonnel, & possiblu G Harding. s on the ones I'm sure of.  DGG ( talk ) 20:41, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
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