Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Micah Armstrong
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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 keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:09, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Micah Armstrong (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)
Two sources - both campus newspapers. Google shows blogs, YouTube, and more campus newspapers. Doesn't meet notability standards. Rklawton (talk) 17:28, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep The Associated Press is not a "campus newspaper," but [their article about Armstrong said he "holds a near mythic status on college campuses across the eastern United States." This controversial preacher has had widespread coverage in newspapers from many states over a period of several years. Campus newspapers report events on college campuses, and are in no way inherently unreliable.They generally have independent editorial boards which control the published content, and are in no way less reliable as sources than newspapers in small towns of comparable size. Here is a story about Armstrong from one such paper at a Georgia college: [1]. Here is one from a Florida college, which was carried by a news wire service: [2]. See Google News archive, [3] which has coverage from November 2006, January, March and October 2007, September 2008, and February 2009, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina. Satisfies notability by substantial coverage in multiple independent and reliable sources. Covers several years in several states, so not subject to WP:NOTNEWS. Edison (talk) 18:05, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Edison. Bearian (talk) 20:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep This guy is known by universities all around the US. Just because no one's made a dedicated effort to improve the article does not mean it isn't notable. -Ed!(talk) 02:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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