Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pete Fenlon

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) -- DQ (t) (e) 17:09, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Pete Fenlon

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prod was removed due to him being a "ceo of a major gaming" company. So I brought it here. The company may or may not be notable but that does not automatically transfer personal notability to the CEO. original article authors only appeared to be a SPA account. Only reference shows he was ceo and nothing more. Tracer9999 (talk) 15:07, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

He's well-known as the creator of RoleMaster, SpaceMaster and related RPGs, not to mention MERP. His game maps had a distinctive style still referred to as "Pete Fenlon style". I was lucky enough to get to talk to him today; I was writing about it and came to check Wikipedia before linking to it, and found this deletionism in progress... Metamatic (talk) 22:40, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:25, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:26, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Comment although mayfair games is a reasonably large company I would have to agree that being CEO on its own isn't enough. This is another case where there is a very large wikipedia page RoleMaster that doesn't have any RS refs nor a clear message of notability and is now needed to judge if the co-creator is notable. I did find this [[1]]. The Fenlon Style is mentioned here: [2]. The question that needs to be answered is how important / notable are MERP maps.Tetron76 (talk) 21:13, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

• Keep One of the primary authors of Rolemaster and MERP, the former being notable as a 1st-generation RPG that still exists, the latter being notable as the first licensed (Tolkein, since revoked) RPG literary franchise. Jclemens (talk) 15:35, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
• At any rate, we have multiple reliable sources mentioning him, let alone awards for the books and games, which may not mention him:
  • Wired, quoted talking about Settlers of Catan: [3]
  • Profile in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: [4] (pay per view, unfortunately)
  • Book, Digital Storytelling: [5]
  • Book, Video Games and Interactive Media: [6]
  • Paper mention (maps), Fantasy Review: [7]
• keep there appears to have been enough combined events to warrant notability even with most of the RS so far being passing references.Tetron76 (talk) 16:58, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
• Keep based on the sources presented by Jclemens. -- JHunterJ (talk) 20:18, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

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