Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lance Latham

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 keep. - Mailer Diablo 06:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lance Latham

Fails WP:BIO. Article asserts no notability, I get less than 2,000 google hits, which includes this article as hit #4 and Lance's unrelated to this one.[1] Arbusto 22:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Notable both as preacher and musician. Google hits are unreliable for people who died in ~~1991~~ 1985. Article should be expanded from printed biography mentioned in article, brief online biography at http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/l/a/latham_lb.htm and perhaps from old newspaper clippings. Note that he founded Awana. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk |

contribs) 04:14, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The wiki article doesn't mention awana. Your cyberhymnal.org bio claims he "co-founded" it; whatever that means, whatever year, and with who? Lastly if he is a notable musician please provide WP:RS that he meets WP:MUSIC. There are some serious WP:V issues, and a keep vote shouldn't be made because someone's personal website makes claims. As of now the article still asserts nothing. Arbusto 07:39, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep as he helped develop the Awana curriculum, which is apparently popular in evangelical circles. Sort of a combination of scouting and Sunday school. Article barely touches on this.--Dhartung | Talk 04:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. NeoFreak 05:53, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and expand. His contribution to Awana is notable, as per his biography. Rockpocket 07:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious Keep He has a biography written by Dave Breese who is notable enough to have his own Wikipedia article. Bagginator 08:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: According to amazon.com, this "book" (ASIN: B0006YL5G8) is an unknown binding published by Awana in 1978. So its self-published by Latham's group a decade before he died. It isn't even in print and has Amazon.com Sales Rank: of 2,191,303-- Just 190,000 shy of cracking the top two million. That "book" does not pass notablity criteria. Arbusto 17:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - older stuff google is poor-ish (and not exactly the kind of thing that easily makes its way) but thereis some essence of verifiablility/.encyclopaedic value here. Be nice if it were better referenced, but I buy the idea that it's somehow verifiable. WilyD 13:14, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It will need to be expanded and referenced, tho.--Cúchullain ^t/c 04:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:02, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the comments made above. Yamaguchi先生 23:15, 18 September 2006 (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.