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The Minor Planet Center merely lists his name (assuming I'm looking at the same page you are). It has no biographical information. That's the problem, other than his self-written article (re-published from a local paper by a Nashville astronomy club), nothing can be found out about him. Unless you know of sources that give his biographical details, I don't see how the article holds up as anything but a stub.
Tarl N. (
discuss)
02:58, 27 October 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep I think anybio or the GNG are the wrong criteria. Certainly I think anyone who has discovered > 100 asteroids deserves a stub. His biographical data is not what makes him notable. I mean, who cares? The notability is in the achievement. This may be a case of not having an appropriate guideline for astronomers. If there is such, please ping me. --
Dlohcierekim (
talk)
04:20, 1 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Weak Keep mostly based on the number of discoveries. I've added another reference to a newspaper interview with him, but there doesn't seem to be that many of these. There is, however, enough to write a (short) article about him. Thanks.
Mike Peel (
talk)
20:29, 6 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep without any doubt. The sheer number of discoveries as well as cited articles, "An Amateur Story", "Stars falling over Alabama", in addition to subject's descriptive write-up [under "External links"] within the website of Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society are more than sufficient reasons for his notability and retention in Wikipedia.
—Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs)23:00, 6 November 2017 (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
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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 Minor Planet Center merely lists his name (assuming I'm looking at the same page you are). It has no biographical information. That's the problem, other than his self-written article (re-published from a local paper by a Nashville astronomy club), nothing can be found out about him. Unless you know of sources that give his biographical details, I don't see how the article holds up as anything but a stub.
Tarl N. (
discuss)
02:58, 27 October 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep I think anybio or the GNG are the wrong criteria. Certainly I think anyone who has discovered > 100 asteroids deserves a stub. His biographical data is not what makes him notable. I mean, who cares? The notability is in the achievement. This may be a case of not having an appropriate guideline for astronomers. If there is such, please ping me. --
Dlohcierekim (
talk)
04:20, 1 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Weak Keep mostly based on the number of discoveries. I've added another reference to a newspaper interview with him, but there doesn't seem to be that many of these. There is, however, enough to write a (short) article about him. Thanks.
Mike Peel (
talk)
20:29, 6 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep without any doubt. The sheer number of discoveries as well as cited articles, "An Amateur Story", "Stars falling over Alabama", in addition to subject's descriptive write-up [under "External links"] within the website of Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society are more than sufficient reasons for his notability and retention in Wikipedia.
—Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs)23:00, 6 November 2017 (UTC)reply
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