Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Morasco

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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 Merge→Toynbee tiles and redirect. This outcome is consistent with the notion that a person who is notable as the result of a single event or phenomenon should have their mention in the context of that topic. Official policy relates this to living persons, but extension to persons no longer alive seems reasonable and logical. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 08:07, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] James Morasco

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not notable Rapido 21:34, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete If "some people believe" that he did something, it is not notable enough for Wikipedia. NASCAR Fan24(radio me!) 22:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Subject of an ongoing controversy. — Walloon 22:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Scratching my head here. He may be notable, but, then again, it could be another guy with his name? And?--Sethacus 22:22, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Merge and redirect per others arguments to do so.--Sethacus 15:28, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
My research as a professional genealogist finds only five adults with the name James Morasco in the entire United States (going back several decades). The James Morasco profiled in the Wikipedia article is the only one in the Philadelphia area. Could be "another guy with his name" but very, very unlikely. — Walloon 22:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep unless very good reasons given, I count about a dozen contributors to this article, unless they are socks this appears to be legit, and some loose claim to notability. Nothing has been said to rebut it...JJJ999 00:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Comment - I think you need to look carefully at the "dozen" contributors. They are pretty much all edits of grammar, correcting Wikilinks, stub sorting, etc. The article is almost exclusively written by Walloon; with minor additions from Colinclarksmith, Mdbrownmsw, Dovate (mostly 1 each). There are only 350 Google hits for James Morasco, and a proportion of those would relate to other people of the same name. I think it would be sensible for a paragraph of this entry to be merged into Toynbee tiles, as his name is inextricably linked with the tiles (no-one would know of him if they hadn't read about the tiles, after all). But this entry on its own should be deleted. Rapido 08:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
For the record, I am the "146.148.99.37" who originated the article. I wrote it at work, forgetting that I wasn't logged in as myself. — Walloon 01:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Toynbee tiles. His notability, such as it may or may not be, is tied to that. Clarityfiend 05:01, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Toynbee tiles. Tenuous, unproven basis of notability means he shouldn't have an article. --Dhartung | Talk 06:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Toynbee tiles per Clarityfiend and Dhartung. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 19:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect per above Tiptopper 10:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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.