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The result was delete. Little point in redirecting to Gerald Walpin; the question of whether he is notable is not for this AfD. This article is a fairly unremarkable news article (WP:NOTNEWS), and more problematically is clearly a WP:COATRACK; it was only created and only exists as a criticism of Obama. User:SarekOfVulcan put it best - "Once there's actually some investigation that shows he acted improperly, or this blows up into something on the scale of the White House Travel Office firings, then it's notable enough for an article". Very few of the Keep arguments hold any water - once the obvious SPAs are dismissed, most of them boil down to "well, there are a lot of sources" - yes, news stories tend to have news sources writing about them, but that doesn't mean they're encyclopedic - and bare WP:ITSNOTABLE arguments. At the moment, we have an article on Gerald Walpin - this article doesn't need to exist alongside that, and indeed, in its present form, clearly shouldn't. Black Kite 22:08, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]