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The result was keep. Consensus herein is for this article to be retained. North America 1000 17:19, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
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Fails WP:NBOX and is a not notable small town politician. He was the first to fight Ali first, but such things aren't covered under NBOX. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:15, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
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- Delete As per nominator. Does not pass WP:GNG either. Notability is not inherited by who you interact with. Peter Rehse ( talk) 15:19, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
- Keep. Has a biographical profile in an entire chapter devoted to him in the book
Facing Ali.
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times features an interview of Hunsaker. The
Ali-Hunsaker fight is a historic boxing match because it was the first fight of Ali as a professional.Finally, Hunsaker must have been a prominent figure in his own right considering he has a bridge named after him.The official website of the eponymous bridge (
https://officialbridgeday.com/in-the-shadow-of-the-new-river-gorge-bridge-the-tunney-hunsaker-bridge/ ) says: "The bridge was eventually renamed in honor of Tunney Hunsaker, the long time Chief of Police in Fayetteville. Tunney was the youngest Chief of Police in WV when he got the job at age 27."
Soham321 (
talk) 16:33, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
- Comment Bridges and infrastructure are regularly named after local people. How many communities named something after a fallen soldier since the war on terror started? Source for this information may not pass
WP:RS too. It is a privately run website.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof? 11:47, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: Some more material about Hunsaker which indicates that he was a notable figure: Obituary in Los Angeles Times and What happened to Tunney Hunsaker. Soham321 ( talk) 14:51, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: My interest is bridges, rather than boxing. Whether or not Hunsaker himself is sufficiently notable is one question; the notability of the bridge named after him is a separate question. To the latter, I must say, this bridge is notable as a predecessor of the major New River Gorge Bridge. Therefore: Keep, in some form. One good way to cover the bridge is to keep a biographical article, in which coverage of the bridge should be kept rather like it is now. (A refinement would be to add a heading.) In case there is enough opinion that the biographical article should be deleted, an alternative would be to write a brief article on the bridge, which would include at least a brief mention of who Hunsaker was. But can we delete the bio, without providing an article on the bridge? I don't care for that at all. Oaklandguy ( talk) 05:40, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- Comment Bridges and infrastructure are regularly named after local people. How many communities named something after a fallen soldier since the war on terror started? Source for this information may not pass
WP:RS too. It is a privately run website.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof? 11:47, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
- Keep: This article transcends WP:NBOX. It meets WP:GNG by virtue of an obituary in the Los Angeles Times and a feature in another major national newspaper. It's not a WP:INHERITED case, Hunsaker is not just a footnote to Ali's career, he's a personage "worthy of note", as WP:GNG terms it. It's the sources that have decided that. Spicemix ( talk) 19:25, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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- Keep. He hasn't "inherited" notability by fighting Ali first, but instead has become notable himself at least partially because of that fight. The LA Times obit and the profile in Facing Ali make that much clear. agtx 17:39, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- Keep. I removed some unbelievably minor trivia to concentrate on the notable part of his career. DGG ( talk ) 01:56, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
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