Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlo Viberti
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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 delete. No arguments to keep. Kevin (talk) 02:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Should probably be deleted for lacking notability, essentially. This person apparently took one flight on one of NASA's Vomit Comets on a contract for a private firm, and happens to be Italian. If I'm wrong I'd love to be proven wrong, though. I've searched high and low (online at least) and I can't find any indication that he's taken more then the one flight though.
— V = I * R (Talk • Contribs) 02:06, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak delete I contested a prod on this, as I don't think the lack of notability is entirely clear (which is also why my delete is only weak). Besides the sources in the article, there are also several sources about Viberti and Spaceland having put the oldest person in suborbital flight,[1] the youngest,[2] and a disabled person.[3] However, these smack of publicity stunts, and I'm not comfortable saying they really confer notability on Viberti.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 14:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I think that accurately describes my own take on this as well. I've worked on the article, and read through a bunch of references (many translated from Italian), and this just makes me uncomfortable. If NASA or an independent news source were to talk about him and/or Spaceland independently of reprinting or paraphrasing some press release, then I'd probably change my mind. Again, I'd love to be able to keep this, but the appearance that this may be based on promotional material and the apparent general lack of notability here just doesn't quite convince me.
— V = I * R (Talk • Contribs) 16:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I think that accurately describes my own take on this as well. I've worked on the article, and read through a bunch of references (many translated from Italian), and this just makes me uncomfortable. If NASA or an independent news source were to talk about him and/or Spaceland independently of reprinting or paraphrasing some press release, then I'd probably change my mind. Again, I'd love to be able to keep this, but the appearance that this may be based on promotional material and the apparent general lack of notability here just doesn't quite convince me.
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, (X! · talk) · @078 · 00:52, 9 February 2010 (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.