Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lauri Nurminen

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:12, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lauri Nurminen[edit]

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The article does not really make a claim to notability. Being the last verteran of a civil war to die is not really such a claim, especially when people knew so little about you they had to hunt you out to find you and at first thought that someone else was the holder of this non-notable title. Beyond this the article has no sources, and has had a tag notifying us of this fact for almost 9 years. John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:47, 10 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Military, and Finland. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:51, 10 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:BASIC. Mztourist (talk) 03:21, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Single newspaper ref in fi.wp article appears to collaborate the content, but isn't sufficient to establish notability. I'll do a bit of digging around, but I'm not too hopeful. -Ljleppan (talk) 07:10, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There's at least one text discussing a "Lauri Nurminen" (whether it's the same person, I'm not completely certain) on the website of Suomen Sotaveteraaniliitto (transl. Finnish Union of War Veterans), but I'm not quite convinced that it counts as independent of the subject. Someone with that name is also mentioned in an Aamulehti story that I can't access due to a paywall, but based on the title and the opening paragraph, I think the story is focused on another person. The National Library of Finland newspaper archives found plenty of hits for the name, but these appear to be very passing and some are presumably about a different person altogether:
- Someone called Lauri Nurminen drowned in a boating accident: [1]
- Lauri Nurminen mentioned as one of hundreds given the Order of the Cross of Liberty: [2]
- Someone by that name played football: [3]
- Someone by that name elected to a municipal committee of some kind: [4], [5]
That said, I didn't go through every single result in the newspaper archives given how low-quality even the most relevant hits were. Leaning towards a delete, unless someone can find sources to establish notability. Note that the name is an extremely standard Finnish name, so any sources should be scrutinized to make sure they are actually discussing the article subject. - Ljleppan (talk) 07:30, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per my comment above -Ljleppan (talk) 08:31, 15 April 2022 (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.