Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Hickman (newscaster)
No indication that this local celebrity meets Wikipedia:Notability (people) in the context of a worldwide encyclopedia.  Saying that a 30-year newscaster reported a lot of significant events is not a sign of notability; any competent person, whose main career was news, has the same claim.  Local celebrities are often called the somebody-of-somewhere; that the person's fame is explained as the somebody-else-of-somewhere, and that Walter Cronkite was not called "the Don Hickman of America", should put the comparison in perspective.  The essay Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance explains why subjects of regional notability often do not meet Wikipedia notability guidelines.  (Yes, Wikipedia has a "bias towards people that are well known in the news or items that impact a vast majority of people", as Mr Xaero put it.  That's how it's intended to work.)  |Wikipedia is not a memorial and inclusion or deletion is not a contest about whether someone personally deserves to be remembered
— User:Closeapple, 20:52, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTMEMORIAL (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)