Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William S. Gannaway

William S. Gannaway

Individual is non-notable. Page creator seems to be making a practice of creating Wikipedia articles that are simply obituaries of non-notable individuals.

Delete. Individual is not notable per WP:N and Wikipedia is NOT for memorials. Mwelch 00:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
delete non-notable stamp collector. Pete.Hurd 02:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notability is demonstrated by the references. --Eastmain 02:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Really? How? There are three "references". One is a paid obituary. The other two actually make absolutely no mention of him in any way. And even if they did, they aren't the kind of references (independent secondary sources) required by WP:BIO. Mwelch 03:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

78 missions, DFC, Air Medal, elected school board member with 24 years service, worked with the disabled, notable in Monroe, LA

Billy Hathorn 05:46, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination; fails WP:BIO. Billy Hathorn, it's unfortunate that you seem to have the chops to create well-formatted biographical articles, but you use this skill on articles that are bound to eventually be deleted. Please, please, please familiarize yourself with WP:ATT and WP:BIO before creating any new articles. Your local perception of notability is really not valid. -- Dhartung | Talk 05:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete' as non-notable. The references are completely inadequate. -- Chairman S. Talk ^Contribs 21:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The DFC and the Air Medal should be sufficient to rank Bill Gannaway at least as notable as a supporting actor from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," don't you agree? Justin88 01:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The policy here on notability is WP:BIO. And no, it does not agree. Mwelch 01:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]