Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Hicks

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The result was - Keep due to inclement weather - Peripitus (Talk) 05:52, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Terry Hicks

I doubt that appearing on television a lot on behalf of a cause adds up to notability. If Australia or even the ACT had a "Father of the Year award" award and he had won it might be different. Grahame (talk) 02:58, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. —Grahame (talk) 02:59, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Intensely notable public figure; more than one thousand Factiva hits from Australian newspapers alone, subject of multiple documentaries. Hell, he was publicly headhunted by the Democrats to head their Senate ticket in South Australia for the 2007 election (he turned it down). I'm bemused as to what difference a "Father of the Year" award would actually have made to his notability. Rebecca (talk) 03:03, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: If he had run for the Democrats and lost, as they did, he would not be notable as a politician. The article seems to be making a claim to notability on the basis of a nonsense nomination and you are making an argument for notability on the basis of a nonsense political candidacy.--Grahame (talk) 03:31, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm saying that he's notable as an immensely prominent public figure; one element of which is that a major political party tried to headhunt him as a lead candidate. For goodness sake, the man has more than a thousand newspaper articles referencing him. This should be a no-brainer. Rebecca (talk) 03:45, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - a man who was lead story in the Australian media for years. The article should be NPOVed, though. (It uses the words 'get justice', implying that David was treated unjustly). Australia and the ACT do have Father of the Year awards. - Richard Cavell (talk) 03:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Article requires substantial work on it but the subject has been referenced many, many times over a prolonged period in reliable, secondary sources. Murtoa (talk) 03:52, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to his son's article. While it's not pure BLP1E, he's only notable for the work he's done on behalf of his son, one subject. BLPP1S? StarM 04:16, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. (I started this article) Duffbeerforme (talk) 04:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep; household name. Hesperian 04:41, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Terry Hicks has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands of news stories. Many of these stories have been focused entirely on him, and not his son, so he easily meets WP:BIO. Nick-D (talk) 04:43, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Snowball keep and cleanup/expand. Over 20,000 Ghits, over 2,400 Gnews hits (several specifically about him[1][2][3]) and entries in several books.[4][5][6] McWomble (talk) 05:42, 16 November 2008 (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.