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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Sobel

: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. Notability has been established beyond the one event, though the article needs work as described by Arxiloxos. postdlf (talk) 02:56, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

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Delete, subject is notable only for a single unencyclopedic event due to illness, speculating on subject's illness violates WP:BLP and nothing more is really possible here. Yworo (talk) 14:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

  • Keep, clean up. The current article has a rather unsavory weight, but I find substantial evidence of his prominence. There's more than 150 hits at GNews[http://www.google.com/search?q=rabbi+henry+sobel&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=ar:1&tbm=nws&ei=vhaWTe3UNYW-sAPpienDBQ&start=0&sa=N] and 50 at Google Books[http://www.google.com/search?q=rabbi%20%22henry%20sobel%22&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp] and most of them have nothing to do with the unpleasant incident that currently dominates the article. One good example: a 1993 New York Times article about a controversial interview he gave in Brazilian Playboy.[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/us/religion-notes.html] My suggestion: keep this, add some sources to show his notable activities, cut the bit about his arrest/illness to a couple of sentences.--Arxiloxos (talk) 18:26, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Keep - I agree with Arxiloxos. He's been the subject of several articles, and mentioned in many others across several reputable news organizations like the "New York Times." It is evident that his position as, "Chief Rabbi of Brazil," has led to much notability, for example his comments as an authority figure to a case about Albert Blume, [http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/23/world/a-nazi-s-trail-leads-to-a-gold-cache-in-brazil.html NYT Article]. Lord Arador (talk) 19:06, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Brazil-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:43, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:43, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

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  • Keep - No reason what so ever to delete this article.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Keep - I understand the nominator's BLP concerns. However, this is the Chief Rabbi of Brazil, who has gotten international coverage from the New York Times to the Jerusalem Post, and had an audience with the Pope to discuss Jewish-Catholic relations. Bearian (talk) 21:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

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