Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brent Patterson

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Brent Patterson was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to delete.

See note for Jason Brent above. Bearcat 02:40, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

  • Delete. Appears to have become a non-encyclopedic engineer/manager since his uni debating days. Samaritan 07:36, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Abstain for now, waiting on further arguments/hopefully consensus on notability of world-ranked university debaters. Samaritan 21:36, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Strong keep. His competitive achievements make him far more notable than just the office of CUSID president. Not all presidents of CUSID are listed with their own entries, only those who were also competitive debaters of international note. Being one of the world's top debaters makes him notable to anyone researching debating and debaters, just like famous athletes. Fenster 10:16, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
surely you mean one of Canada's top debaters? I see no reference to any global achievement here. --Ianb 19:40, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
scratch that, sudden attack of not being able to read. --Ianb 19:41, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: At present a perfect merge and redirect, but the article to which it should be merged does not exist yet, so I am left only with "delete," despite the worthiness of the figure. Geogre 16:16, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, non-notable, as above. Lord Bob 18:43, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. Debaters are notable. Academic Challenger 00:58, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete seems non-notable. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:07, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: wrong side of the line. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:08, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • My last word on this: when Andy on The Apprentice has his achievement of being a "nationally-ranked high school debater" stand as his famous accomplishment, surely being the national college champion, or top 10 in the world at the university level, is worth some notability. Someone asked for an example of a fan site to show that non-participants are interested in varsity debating -- here is a rather elaborate one: [1]. -- Fenster 07:39, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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