Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al Borst

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 delete. Clear consensus to delete, but most everyone agrees this may be a good candidate for userfication. Ask myself or any admin to undelete and userfy if you are interested. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:01, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Al Borst

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Possibly non-notable and my searches (News, Books, Newspapers Achive, browser, highbeam and thefreelibrary) found nothing relevant and significant. SwisterTwister talk 19:15, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete: This appears to be TOOSOON. 1. https://www.facebook.com/AmericanDreamingMovie?fref=photo shows that there is a documentary being made that will talk about this guy. 2. The designer's son is on Facebook calling for information and memorials. 3. For collectors of 1950's posters and art, his name means something. However, the article is written with a gigantic undistinguished blob of text that looks like it was ported from somewhere (after the lede), and there are no iRS of notability offered inside the article. I could not find anything outside of WP that did more than say, "This item up for bid was designed by him, so pay more." Hithladaeus (talk) 01:56, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't object to userfying the article, either. It sure needs copy editing in addition to sources and validation, but it seems as if its author hasn't done any work on it during its time on AfD. Hithladaeus (talk) 02:37, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 11:42, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Userfy and send throughArticles for Creation. The creator's account is dated the very day the article was first created, and from the results it seems to be someone unfamiliar with WP style, policies, etc. Going through AFC can provide a bit of education. I am a bit concerned that the account is named User:Crosspromo, and perhaps the creator also is not aware that Wikipedia is not to be used for the purposes of promotion. If proper sources can be found, this could be an interesting article -- based on the great graphics on the related Facebook site. In any case, this article, as it is, cannot remain in WP main space -- it's simply not a viable WP article in the shape that it is in. LaMona (talk) 00:21, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I meant to say this earlier, I have no objections to userfying as this could be a good article but I'm not seeing any improvement at this time. SwisterTwister talk 05:36, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:56, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Userfy and send through articles for creation. There might be something here, but without sources it is hard to say. Also, the article admits he was one of hundreds of designers for GM, so it is unclear why he would be notable over his many contemporaries.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:17, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:19, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Wikipedia is WP:NOTMEMORIAL. No sources can be found, no indication of notability in the article, just another automobile industry employee. Kraxler (talk) 20:03, 5 July 2015 (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.