Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Hickman

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The result was delete. causa sui (talk) 17:46, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don Hickman[edit]

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local face, probably a great guy but nothing that vaguely passes NN Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:10, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There seems to be two pages for the same person named "Don Hickman". There is the first page, Don Hickman, which was set for deletion and was contested. There is also a second page Don Hickman (newscaster) which was approved as an article. Can either the first article be removed or be merged into the other article? - Mr Xaero (talk) 20:53, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: both Don Hickman and Don Hickman (newscaster), both fail the WP:GNG. Jezhotwells (talk) 03:56, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- How does the second one fail if it was an approved article? - Mr Xaero (talk) 10:12, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved how, by whom?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:36, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Through Articles for creation. --86.6.32.228 (talk) 19:37, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, see this page move. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:05, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is any Wikipedia policy saying that everything that comes out of Articles for Creation is automatically "approved". It just means that someone found the article to be worth creating. There is no "approval" process here, no pass-fail administrator putting an "approved" stamp on an article. Everything works by consensus, which is the process we are undergoing right now. --MelanieN (talk) 16:39, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this one, and consider deleting Don Hickman (newscaster) as well. Both pages were recently created, probably as memorial pages (he died this month). About the only references available are obituaries. Those obits do describe him as "one of the most recognizable people in Springfield", "the Walter Cronkite of central Illinois", etc. But there should have been more coverage during his lifetime if he was truly notable. The only in-depth coverage of him I found, aside from obituaries, was this article about the five candidates for mayor in 2003. (He came in fourth.) --MelanieN (talk) 16:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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