Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nigel Vardy

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The result was keep. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:58, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nigel Vardy

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Fails WP:NBIO. Only source is more about his climbing companion than him. Insignificant coverage otherwise, just a lot of sites promoting speaking engagements and books. Rogermx (talk) 20:44, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep The name is familiar and, while he's borderline, I reckon there's enough like this and that. Andrew🐉(talk) 15:21, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I agree that this is a BIO and GNG fail. No doubt Andrew didn't look at the sources he linked, the first which is just three sentences long, the second which just namedrops the subject, or else they wouldn't have been suggested as meeting the GNG. Ravenswing 18:29, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The second of the sources doesn't just namedrop the subject. It has several pages of coverage of an incident in which Vardy was one of the three climbers involved. It seems that you are the one who hasn't actually read it, as if you did you would see that Vardy, as is normal, is referred to by his surname alone after the first mention. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:23, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a total failure of the general notability guidelines.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:40, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The 1999 incident on Mount McKinley, which involved Vardy, two other climbers and some rescuers, seems to be notable, with ISBN 9780684864792, written by Bob Drury and published by Simon & Schuster, having extensive coverage and a few pages in the journal that I have cited in the article as well as previously-identified sources. Maybe this article should be repurposed to be about the incident rather than one of the participants? Phil Bridger (talk) 15:19, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Having spent some time researching and adding both content, sources, and an image of Vardy from the Wellcome Collection, I think this article just makes it over WP:SINGLEEVENT threshhold. Vardy has clearly been written about, or featured in, national media coverage of both the incident and his subsequent achievements long after his life-changing 1999 incident. That said, if consensus and policy goes against my opinion, I think it would be preferable to see a page about the incident on Denali, rather than outright deletion of the article about this one person, per Phil Bridger. Nick Moyes (talk) 00:38, 31 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]
Keep per above. Inter&anthro (talk) 04:35, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Vanamonde (Talk) 18:16, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the post-nom expansion work. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 18:50, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As nominator, I change my vote from ~~Delete~~ to "Keep. Thanks everyone for the research and improvements. Rogermx (talk) 20:30, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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