Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theodore D. Karantsalis

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 of the debate was delete. Petros471 18:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Theodore D. Karantsalis

So because he is the friend of a U.S. casualty he should get his own page? I don't think the fact that he is a reference librarian should warrant a page. Delete as nn. OSU80 12:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - reads as a clear Speedy A7 . Mr. Karantsalis has no impact significant enough to meet wikipedia bio standards for living people. - Peripitus (Talk) 12:57, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This guy is getting attention for what he is doing. See this[1], this[2], and this[3]. It's an AP story that's being run by numerous papers. That establishes notability. Yanksox 13:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - This is an interesting test case. Do those articles constitute wide acclaim and newsworthiness for the man himself, or simply for his cause? Can this article ever be more than a stub? If his website is notable enough for inclusion here, I would recommend changing this article to redirect to a more comprehensive article about the cause, the website, and its efforts. It's a lot easier to demonstrate notability of an organization than it is to demonstrate the notability of a single person. Kafziel 14:05, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• I'd say that was a single mention, as a syndicated AP piece. But in any case, it's a space filler not a mainstream news story. Think of Gary Powers: in this case only one man appears to be making a noise about the case, and that is being run as a human-interest piece in the slow season by some papers. Not really a claim to notability for the pilot and undobtedly not for Karantsalis, who warrants at best a footnote in the parent article. Just zis Guy you know? 16:41, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This person has no objective claim to notability, according to this article. Is this just spam to get more sigs on the petition? That link should go anyway. Just zis Guy you know? 16:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The article reads more like a human interest story than a story about a notable event. Still NN in my opinion. --Ginkgo100 ^{talk · contribs} 16:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Changing to Delete per WP:BIO, "(To be notable the) person has been the primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person. (Multiple similar stories describing a single day's news event only count as one coverage.)" Considering it's one story and I don't see anything else, I'm changing to delete. Yanksox 16:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Those aren't a single piece; those stories are months apart. Kafziel 17:14, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete While somewhat interesting, one-trick ponies aren't notable. Ted 18:49, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Who has been campaigning for the past twenty years for recognition of Paul F. Lorence's bravery and who tried (unsuccessfully as it turned out) to have Lorence's remains returned to the US before the 20th anniversary on April 15, 2006 of his death in Operation El Dorado Canyon? You spineless, pathetic non-notables!Phase4 19:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• This is, I'm afraid, completely irrelevant to whether this is actually a notable campaign, and if it is, whether its originator is notable outside the context of Paul Lorence. As for non-notable, I entirely agree. I am completely non-notable. And I score around 50 times more Google hits than Theodore D. Karantsalis. WP:BIO applies. Just zis Guy you know? 22:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Press coverage. --JJay 23:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Press coverage. 132.241.246.111 01:22, 14 June 2006 (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.