Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stanley Wagner (vintner)
I do not believe that having a New York Times obituary is an inherent guarantee of notability. However, it does help establish notability under . Furthermore, the subject received other obituaries (i.e. proper obituary articles, not just one-paragraph death notices naming his survivors and where the funeral will be held). Not only that, he was mentioned in connection with his vineyard business in articles dating back to 1981 or maybe earlier (see http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QvswAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nuAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1610,7357029&dq=bill-wagner+wine&hl=en, http://books.google.com/books?id=K-QCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32&dq=%22bill+wagner%22+wine&hl=en&ei=i9FITOz3HYT78AaUs-yvDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22bill%20wagner%22%20wine&f=false, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=67MyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U-8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3502,3105145&dq=bill-wagner+wine&hl=en, http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/16/garden/a-new-hybrid-shows-potential.html, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/nyregion/selling-new-york-wine-as-good-and-good-for-you-who-knew.html). He seems to have been a person of some note at least within the New York winemaking business, so I would consider him sufficiently notable for an article. (However, I would recommend that the article be '''moved''' to Bill Wagner (vintner) instead; he seems to have been better known by his nickname Bill than as Stanley
— User:Metropolitan90, 23:20, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)