Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battista Serioli

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was No Consensus, defaults to Keep. Nakon 04:10, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Battista Serioli

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I believe that this article should be deleted by the same precedent as Carmelo Bertolami. I've been trying to make Good Articles out of all the last remaining World War I veterans, but my searches indicate that there just aren't the sources to support an article for this individual. It's not a language thing either - I found plenty of sources, English and Italian, for Carlo Orelli. Of the Ghits, there are only three hits that offer more than trivial coverage that are not unreliable blogs or forums:

1. A brief, four-sentence mention of his 102nd birthday
2. A video recounting the experiences of Italian WWI veterans No longer active, but I've seen this before and it recounts the tales of Serioli and Delfino Borroni, two of the World War I veterans. Serioli's segment was about a three minute long discussion
3. What looks like a local news obituary And a poor one at that, since it doesn't even mention what his actual date of death was (the unreliable forums and blogs bounce between the 21st and the 22nd)

Thus it has little potential for expansion and contains no information aside from what is present in Veterans of the First World War who died in 2007. My basic problem with this article is that there is little, if any, verifiable information out there that could be added to this article aside from what is already present on this list. For those worried that the Google test is not sufficient, I performed searches at both the University of Texas Libraries Catalog (which covers several voluminous libraries) and jstor.org (which covers journal articles back to the 1800s) with no results. Cheers, CP 23:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Scientizzle 16:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. I hate to !vote per nom, yet this nomination is so clear and extensive I have nothing to add. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 16:27, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
• Weak keep. There's enough to show that he really is one of the last survivors of the war (also attested in Il Giornale), which I would have thought was enough to justify keeping a stub on him. Brescia Oggi published a (different) mini-obituary on 24 December 2007 - see this; again without giving an exact date of death. The online archives of many European newspapers are only searchable to subscribers, so I wouldn't necessarily expect Italian sources to be readily found online - but I don't know much about Italy. --Paularblaster (talk) 17:50, 16 January 2008 (UTC) (with edit conflict)
• Keep per Paularblaster. Seems notable enough for an encyclopedia article, and sources are provided.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 01:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

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