Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerry Sokoloski

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The result was keep. Kept per improvements to the article. MelanieN (talk) 04:48, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jerry Sokoloski[edit]

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Nothing is really notable about him. There are very few news articles/possible references about him. I don't see how the article could improve to the Wikipedia article standards. TallGuysFree (talk) 03:28, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I agree he's not notable except for being huge, but if he's not notable why do you have a page and a huge stack of photos of him on your site?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:22, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete does not pass our notability criteria.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:58, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Dr. Blofeld, This page is not a general chat page or forum. It's only for discussing deletion of specific pages. To answer your question, my site is not an encyclopedia (but is in the reference category), and has different notability guidelines than Wikipedia. Any guy Jerry's height can be added to my site. Someone's height alone does not make them notable to Wikipedia. Being an actor does not make them notable, either. Does that answer your question? TallGuysFree (talk) 21:38, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Nothing stated in the article passes our subject-specific inclusion criteria for either sportspeople or actors, and the sourcing is nowhere near solid enough to get him over WP:GNG — between the two footnotes and the two external links, one is an entirely unreliable and non-notability assisting source and the other three are all glancing namechecks of his existence in news articles that aren't about him. Nominator is entirely correct that there's a big difference between inclusion in a database of unusually tall guys because he's verifiably unusually tall, and inclusion in an encyclopedia because he's verifiably notable for something — but neither the substance nor the sourcing here suggest that he's earned the latter. Bearcat (talk) 16:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A quick search did turn up these lengthy articles about him in the Chicago Tribune, the Tulsa World, the Toronto Sun and The London Free Press. -- Dammit_steve (talk) 11:59, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 07:47, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, with thanks to Dammit steve for finding those sources and incorporating them in the article. Mortee (talk) 07:59, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - enough sources to meet GNG. Rlendog (talk) 15:52, 12 January 2018 (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.