Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Newman

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. There is no possibility that this AfD will end any other way at this point. BD2412 T 23:11, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rick Newman

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I could not really see enough online and from the article to what I believe would allow this to pass WP:GNG. Results are dominated with other people with this name. Suggest merge and redirect to Catch a Rising Star (comedy clubs) in some form. Govvy (talk) 21:30, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:56, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep Full length obituaries in NYT and Washington Post, coverage in book sources like Comedy at the Edge, Billboard has coverage of his non-club business ventures, and I see other sources. Yes, he's mainly notable for Catch a Rising Star, but this amount of coverage justifies an independent article. Jfire (talk) 01:24, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
weak delete Notable mostly by association with well-known entertainers. MNewnham (talk) 04:44, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Has to be notable if 2 major national newspapers are writing articles on him.KatoKungLee (talk) 16:46, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - based on 2 obituaries in national newspapers. --hroest 15:44, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - notability is not inherited. Doesn't have SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth from RS. No objection to a properly sourced merge to Catch a Rising Star (comedy clubs) // Timothy :: talk 07:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: if full and detailed obituaries in two major newspapers is not significant coverage, what would be? Bearian (talk) 20:01, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Article subject has notability beyond the context of WP:NOTINHERITED as evidenced by coverage in reliable sources. Shawn Teller (talk) 20:35, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The individual passes WP:SIGCOV/WP:NBASIC as having been the subject of significant coverage multiple independent reliable sources. These include the bylined obituaries in WaPo, Deadline, NYT, Cox Media, and NBC's Today, as well as the book sources mentioned by Jfire above. We have substantial coverage of him as an individual, not merely coverage of his business that happens to mention him in passing, so I don't see a compelling reason to do anything other than keep. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 23:06, 7 March 2023 (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.