Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alvin T. Onaka

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:12, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alvin T. Onaka

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WP:BLP1E, only notable for verifying Barack Obama's birth certificate. Partofthemachine (talk) 17:04, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Non-notable civil servant. The birth certificate thing is neither here nor there. No references found otherwise. Oaktree b (talk) 18:10, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Hawaii. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:30, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Retain

Dr. Onaka was the recipient of a prestigious national award, the Halbert L. Dunn award, and served as president of a national vital records trade association. These accomplishments made the newspapers in Hawaii. Wikipedia would better served by more content about NAPHSIS and its role in setting the policies that the United States uses to maintain the integrity of its vital records.

Of course the Obama birth certificate mess got him some national attention, a number of times, as his certifications became the basis fore state decisions to allow Obama on the Ballot, and as evidence in lawsuits such as Taitz v. Mississippi.

I would also point out that Wikipedia, at the time this entry was created, was looking for more content about notable Hawaiians. Dr. Conspiracy (talk) 20:57, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:22, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:52, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per the nomination, this article is a pretty clear-cut case of WP:BLP1E. The only notable thing this man has done is verify Obama's birth certificate. IncompA 21:43, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I found nothing usable on Newspapers.com, and the only stuff I could find on plain Google was trivial mentions about Obama's birth certificate, and a book he wrote for the Hawaiian state government. (Also, apparently he was involved in a gay rights lawsuit, but that was just more trivial mentions of "the state registrar in Hawaii did so-and-so".) Nothing I saw seemed GNG-usable - all mentions of him are only about what he does as part of his job. casualdejekyll 23:14, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.