Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Davis

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The result was delete all but Jason Leonard. Majorly _{(o rly?)} 16:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dave Davis[edit]

Non-notable train driver. -Sucrine ( ><> talk) 07:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. non-notable. A list of people with trains named after them by this rail company is included in British Rail Class 357 under fleet details. Every name on that list has its own entry:

With the exception of Jason Leonard, none of these articles appears to meet the notability criteria. I think we should delete them all. SkipSmith 08:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all above - non-notable train (driver)s. Fails WP:A. MER-C 11:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep on the Leonard article, as this fellow meets WP:BIO with flying colors as a world-record holding athlete. Delete on the Whitelegg articles as failing WP:ATT, although if those articles are attributed they'd pass. Delete on Flaxman as NN, fails WP:BIO and WP:ATT. Speedy Delete on all the other articles, no assertion of notability. (This is the danger of the blanket deletion approach, the more so when editors don't actually pay attention to the individual particulars.) Ravenswing 16:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all but Leonard article per Ravenswing. Edison 19:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all but Leonard article per Ravenswing. I don't see any evidence that the engine with that nameplate is named for him, it was probably just an available bluelink? -- Dhartung | Talk 10:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Come to that, for all we know, the "Jason Leonard" for whom that engine may be named could readily be a long-term rail employee like the others, and not the rugby player at all. Ravenswing 13:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I checked into it, and it does look like that train is in fact named after the famous rugby player: [[1]]. SkipSmith 20:46, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete - all but Leonard article, speedy delete per CSD A7, unremarkable people. Luke! 23:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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