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The result was keep, withdrawn. — David Eppstein ( talk) 01:48, 20 November 2016 (UTC) reply

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Insignificant individual and does not meet notability requirement. KAVEBEAR ( talk) 05:06, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete. While the subject played American football too early to meet the requirements of WP:NGRIDIRON, he hasn't been shown to meet WP:GNG either. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:22, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply
  • Keep as revised. While not sufficiently notable as a football player, the subject has been established in the revised version of the article as notable per WP:POLITICIAN, given that he was a cabinet official and supreme court justice of a country. (Also, I think that an uninvolved editor should now feel free to close this AfD as withdrawn, since nobody is calling for deletion any more.) -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:57, 18 November 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 05:47, 16 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• Speedy Keep - KAVEBEAR I was just going to ping you when I pulled up Whiting's page. Please withdraw this. Whiting is actually William Austin Whiting, who was Attorney General of the Kingdom of Hawaii. I'm adding to the article right now. You actually linked his obit with his image on Commons. It says in there he was a 6th generation Harvard graduate. But there's no doubt this is the same person. We just need to develop the article more. — Maile ( talk) 22:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• This is the same person?-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 22:18, 16 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• I'm pretty sure. He's the same age, the same name, went to Harvard during the same years and studied law there. We could resolve this whole thing by moving the article to William Austin Whiting, since the football is negligible anyway. — Maile ( talk) 22:21, 16 November 2016 (UTC) reply
• Here's the source "Wm. Austin Whiting Passes to the Beyond". The Hawaiian Gazette. January 21, 1908. Retrieved November 16, 2016 – via Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. — Maile ( talk) 22:26, 16 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• Withdrawn Given the new information above. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 23:26, 16 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• I have expanded fivefold and nominated it as a DYK. I originally thought it was just an obscure football player and my purpose was to delete it and reused the link for the Hawaii attorney general, but ironically they turns out to be the same person. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 08:07, 18 November 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 05:47, 16 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• Keep, providing that this is actually the same person who was the Hawaii attorney general. @ Cbl62: @ Jweiss11: anyone else have any more info on this? Ejgreen77 ( talk) 02:34, 18 November 2016 (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.