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 result was keep. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:51, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin "Coach" Wade (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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Per WP:BLP1E. Notability rests on Survivor. Memorable contestant, but no notability outside of Survivor. Meaghan ^{the vanilla twilight} 13:38, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, at least for now: He's one of the top 20 or so most recognizable characters in one of the biggest shows of the past 10 years. Also his character is a bit of an enigma, which I think would probably lead people to try to find out more about him. I myself have done some Google sleuthing just to try to figure out what he's all about and how much of what he said on the show was real. An encyclopedia entry would have been helpful in that pursuit. I would think there is no harm in leaving this here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.197.246.30 (talk) 17:22, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, at least for now: This is the kind of nomination that goes over better and calmer when Survivor is not actually on TV. Now is when interest in the subject is high. I see Russell Hantz recently closed as a merge (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russell Hantz) in a fairly close !vote. Apparently 16 out of 20 of the contestants on Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains currently have individual pages, some of which look like they were at one time deleted and then recreated later. (E.g., Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Candice Woodcock, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Parvati Shallow). My bias, though, is that if a sourced article can be created, it does little harm.--Milowent (talk) 19:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, at least for now: I have to admit, I am unsure what the proceedure is for this, or if I am even in a position to toss my two cents in, but I largely agree with the above statement. I have done some work on the page myself (What a mess it was!) and will plug away at getting some Sources in to it. I am of course, perfectly happy to go along with the consensus in either direction. Dphilp75 (talk) 20:48, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, at least for now: Why shouldn't Survivor contestants get their own Wiki page? To the extent that pop culture is relevant to our lives, I don't understand why individuals associated with fictional programming have primacy over those involved in reality programming. At least Survivor is a compelling program. Most television shows are not. Gwendolyn78 (talk) 20:48, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: The page is in dire need of rearrangement and has numerous mistakes. Unless you can prove how else he is notable and drastically improve the article, delete under WP:ONEEVENT. —Untitledmind72 (talk) 00:11, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:49, 18 February 2010 (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.