Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel Nalo

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The result was Merge and redirect. --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 09:04, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Nalo[edit]

NN criminal... Article claims him to be a "successful and well-known" burglar, but article does not mention much in the way of notability (other than a couple robberies), and is unsourced. There are no G-news hits (and very few G-hits) for "Samuel Nelo". There are a couple G-news hits that list the name "Sorecho Nalo A.K.A. Sam Nelo", but these appear to be brief mentions in court paperwork. Does not seem to pass notability concerns... Adolphus79 (talk) 15:07, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete Nalo seemed to get one small burst of publicity, with nationally papers writing about the Hotel Pierre robbery. Then the New York Times wrote about the sentencing. Most of the articles are behind paywall. See [1] the New York Times article, 641 words long, about the sentencing of the Pierre Hotel robbers, which Google [2] says is about Sam Nalo and 2 others. This appears to be substantial coverage and not just "brief mention in court paperwork." The Holland Michigan, Evening Sentinel for January 10, 1972 (Newspaperarchive.com, subscription)has a UPI story "$750,000 in gems recovered" about the Hotel Pierre robbery, in which four well dressed men invaded the hotel, cleaned out 47 safe deposit boxes, and fled in a limo. The wire service story has two paragraphs about Nalo, although the bulk of the story is about the recovery of $750,000 in gems, the robbery, and the arrest of five men including Nalo by the FBI for stealing 1 to 5 million in gems. The Hotel Pierre robbery story was carried nationwide [3] perhaps based on wire service stories. Still seems to be about one event, and rather bare bones notability at that. The robbery was more notable than the one robber. Edison (talk) 15:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: OK, "brief mention in court paperwork" might have been a bit understated... but I agree, the information available covers the robberies themselves, with him only being mentioned as one of the people involved, none of the sources I found are about him specifically... - Adolphus79 (talk) 16:00, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:33, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect/Merge to Pierre Hotel Robbery per WP:BIO1E. Sammy the Arab was credited and jailed for a record breaking crime, but that's all he gets WP:RS coverage for. • Gene93k (talk) 00:02, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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