Deletion of Brendan Burke

Comment: per Bearcat. Has had sufficient coverage to allow for a separate article that meets , and not violating OT,  or POV
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:NOT||WP:V||WP:NPOV)

Comment: The accusations of  are one of many things that have gone wrong here. OK, some of the people who contributed may not be regular Wikipedians, but  discourages making points of this type
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (WP:SPA||WP:BITE)

Comment: The Twitter/blog issue was mentioned in one of my earlier posts. After disregarding a few "keep" votes to allow for , there is little evidence of pro-keep flooding in the debate. The main problem here has been accusations of bad faith and personal attacks by the regular Wikipedians
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTDEMOCRACY)

Comment: to Brian Burke per  and . Notability is connected to father, and stems from one event
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTMEMORIAL||WP:BLP1E)

Comment: I also thought that this person didn't meet , and I'm not a member of an anti-gay, anti-semitic terrorist group. In fact, I'm gay myself.  Are we disregarding my arguments, too? It's okay if other users disagree with me about this person's notability, but maybe we could actually talk about that rather than keeping it because we don't like the nominator
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: per nomination. Article reads like a press release from an advocacy group with many eacock|peacock terms and little context to establish notability. A complete rewrite by a |neutral party might salvage the article, but it should be deleted for now
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P||WP:NPOV)

Comment: I also thought this person didn't meet , and that the vast majority of the news coverage is related to his death and his famous father, not his own accomplishments.  I think you'll find that my block log is clear; do my ideas deserve to be given any credence
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: Notable template at the top of the page. This deletion debate has become a huge talking point on the lesbian/gay websites, and it has been seen as Wikipedia versus the gay lobby. The real issue, as ever, is . Many people had never heard of Brendan Burke before his untimely death, and there is a risk of using his Wikipedia article as a memorial, which is dealt with at . If Brendan Burke was not notable enough for a Wikipedia article one week ago, he may not be notable enough for one now
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NOTMEMORIAL)

Comment: While I think alot of the above !votes are people voting because they view it as a memorial etc. I think this article should be kept because there was widespread news coverage of him not just due to his death as some have suggested for BLP1E but because he also was the subject of much coverage last year when he did come out. He has since been the subject of numerous television reports and shows about him, as well as his efforts to help with equalization of rights for people of various orientations. All of which lead to him passing  and 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:V)

Comment: There can be no doubt that the media coverage of his coming-out easily passes  (''why'' the media covered it is of course irrelevant). There is also no doubt that the media coverage of his death passes that same guideline. Since those are ''two'' events, the  exception does not apply. There are no other relevant exceptions, so we can't delete or merge this article without violating our own policy
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:BLP1E)

Comment: seems to have significant media coverage, so I honestly don't know what the issue would be.  Pretty clearly meets 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: to Brian Burke (ice hockey). , , . A mention can be made at his father's article, given his notability, simply put, is inhereted from being the son of a famous father
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:NOTMEMORIAL)

Comment: to Brian Burke; , . Being gay or dying do not constitute notability
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTMEMORIAL||WP:ONEEVENT)

Comment: Per above.  I just looked through G-News archive myself (for articles ''before'' January) and it's damned scanty.  I see nothing in  or  stating that "being publically gay" is a ''prima facie'' notability pass, and given OTINHERITED, there's nothing in Burke's CV that would earn him independent notability were it not for having a well-known father.  I strongly recommend that some of the Keep proponents take the time to read the pertinent policies and guidelines which define notability; it is a common fallacy on Wikipedia to define "notability" as "I think the guy's important."  That being said, I find the catcalling about bigotry reprehensible and disgusting.  Strange though it may seem to some people - and I would certainly have liked to think better of registered editors - it's perfectly possible to apply Wikipedia policy and guidelines to articles without having an axe to grind, and furthermore there are actually editors who do so
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:N||WP:NOTINHERITED)

Comment: This deletion debate has become notable in itself, partly because of a large number of stories in the blogs like http://www.towleroad.com/2010/02/brendan-burkes-life-marked-for-deletion-on-wikipedia.html this one. Many of these blog pieces have misunderstood what "notable" means on Wikipedia. It also unfortunate that accusations of homophobia have been made, since this was never an issue. Even if the article was deleted (which is now looking unlikely), the information about Brendan Burke's death would be merged into Brian Burke (ice hockey). The http://twitter.com/search?q=brendan%20burke%20wikipedia Twitter crowd has also been massively excited about this. Anyone for explaining  in 140 characters or less
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)