Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Haskins

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 15:33, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

William Haskins

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The one source here is not enough to add towards notability, it is a super comprehensive database style source. I performed all the reccomended google searches according to before instructions, and came up with no other sources at all. It was recently decided people are not notable merely for competing in the olympics, they either need to win a medal which Haskins did not, or we need to find additional substantial sources on them, which I have not been able to do. John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:11, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. He got an obituary in the "Harvard University Obituary and Death Notice Collection" (found on this unreliable site, may be a copyvio link), but that's not an independent source (Uni writing about alumni), and nothing in that obituary indicates other elements which may give notability. Fram (talk) 16:04, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: No longer meets NOLY, no SIGCOV, and never any credible evidence of meeting the GNG. Ravenswing 18:31, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - would redirecting to Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four be appropriate? Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:42, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kind of an unlikely search term, though; how many people are going to be fishing for unknowns who happened to sit in a coxed four the better part of a century ago? Ravenswing 17:36, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe someone from Belmont, Massachusetts? Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 18:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four, per WP:ATD. <Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 18:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails WP:GNG, the only source is a database of the kind excluded from showing notability per WP:SPORTCRIT. I think it highly, highly unlikely that anyone is going to be searching for a not-very-successful rower from a century ago, as opposed to the many other equally-non-notable people with the same name, and as such this is not a plausible search term. I note that this article received a grand total of zero visitors in December 2021 and a monthly average of 11 visitors during 2021, most of whom likely won't have been looking for the Olympian but e.g., bots, webcrawlers, and people searching for other people with the same name. Can accept redirecting but preference is for deletion. FOARP (talk) 14:58, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No indication of notability. Nigej (talk) 15:40, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - While normally I'd support a redirect, I don't here. After running the internal search function using the wildcard character * to bring up all mentions of a William Haskins on enwiki, we seem to have mentions of a colonial commissioner in Maryland, a couple fictional characters, a video game director, a video game writer (possibly same person), a notable army officer with a similar name (Haskin not Haskins), and this fellow. I don't think we can say that this utterly obscure person is more likely to be the intended search target than any of these others. Hog Farm _Talk 19:59, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's fair enough. Can't really argue with that. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:41, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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