Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dick Churchill

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The result was redirect to The Great Escape. – Joe (talk) 23:49, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dick Churchill

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Dick Churchill was a POW in World War II who participated in "The Great Escape;" he was captured and survived the war. His status as an airman does not meet WP:SOLDIER. His notability, if any, is WP:INHERITED. Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 20:26, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 20:28, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 20:28, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete While he is receiving some coverage as the last survivor of the group (interviews, his post war life, etc.) - this does not rise to GNG.Icewhiz (talk) 20:49, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to The Great Escape. I think he fails GNG as notable for one event only.--Rusf10 (talk) 23:19, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and expand the stub I count 8 ~~obituaries~~ articles with information on him in major papers and news magazines. --RAN (talk) 04:26, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Those obits are for Paul Royle, Churchill is still alive 2604:6000:1209:809A:7917:657F:8F12:F348 (talk) 04:49, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete Mr. Norton wants to keep articles on everything, but Wikipedia is not meant to be an indiscriminate collection of information. We have notability standards, and Churchill fails any and all of them.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:00, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - I don't see enough material about Churchill to write a verifiable, non-POV article. I agree that WP:BIO1E applies from what I can see and that the redirect will be useful for our readers. This may change when Churchill dies and obituaries are written (sorry if that sounds morbid). Smmurphy^(Talk) 16:52, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect name to The Great Escape. Otherwise, not notable for stand alone article. Kierzek (talk) 18:47, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
~~Redirect~~ Stalag Luft III#Survivors Coverage is better at the Great Escape than in the article. Unscintillating (talk) 03:13, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep A Redirect !vote is wrong for multiple reasons. It is not a policy-based !vote, because the question here is notability, not what the content contributors should do with the current material. The first !voter provided evidence of article after article. The second reason was that with the current material, we can use the current brief article by providing readers more than one entry point into the Stalag Luft III article, as well as see also's to Thomas Kirby-Green, Gordon Kidder, Paul Royle, List of Allied airmen from the Great Escape, and Stalag Luft III murders. Unscintillating (talk) 02:30, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect - Clear-cut case of WP:BLP1E as sources are within the context of a single event. This should be redirected to The Great Escape.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 02:51, 20 December 2017 (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.