Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel Lindenbaum

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The result was delete. PhilKnight (talk) 19:22, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Lindenbaum (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

NN gangster... He was a criminal... he was friends with these guys... he owned a laundromat... he was murdered, but his dogs survived... the one reference provided is only a very short blurb about this individual being involved with Stevie Hughes (who's article has already been deleted)... it seems his claim to notability is the fact he was friends with Hughes, and was killed in the same car... fails WP:N, WP:NOTINHERITED and WP:ONEVENT... Adolphus79 (talk) 19:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Wizardman 04:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Wizardman 18:19, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Getting shot while driving a mobster around just does not satisfy WP:BIO. At Google book search and Google news archive search, His getting shot in 1966 got a wire service story about a numbre of gang killings printed in a few papers[1] at the time of the shooting, but Wikipedia is not a repository of every shooting in history. One story says there had been 30 gang shootings in Greater Boston by September that year.Edison (talk) 19:59, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. The only reliable source for this article is one out-of-print book from 1973 by Vincent Teresa, "My Life in the Mafia." I'm persuaded by User:Edison that we are not a repository of every shooting in history. EdJohnston (talk) 20:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 13:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 14:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Beyond the analysis above, Vinnie Teresa's book has been heavily discredited as two parts fiction and one part puffery to every portion of truth; the only major insider bit he got right was in calling the Deegan murder trial a frameup. No way I'd want to rely on that as my sole source for much of anything.  RGTraynor  16:13, 21 August 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.