Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karl Kae Knecht
Certainly needs improvement, expansion and better sourcing, but IMO the subject is notable and passes . First, regarding helping to found the zoo. I did a bit of googling and there is a mention at the website of the Willar library in Indiana that confirms thishttp://www.willard.lib.in.us/online_resources/photography_gallery_detail.php?ID=27: "Knecht Building. One of the first buildings at the zoo (named in honor of Karl Kae Knecht, who helped to found the zoo); photo dated 1930 (Knecht 1526)". I'd like to have a better ref but this one is OK for now. GoogleNewshttp://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=%22Karl+Kae+Knecht%22 and, particularly, GoogleBookshttp://books.google.com/books?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Karl%20Kae%20Knecht%22&sa=N&tab=np searches show reasonably substantial coverage, including a very recent news-storyhttp://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/aug/26/meskers-early-years-photo-archive-traces-history/. There was, for instance, a newstory about him in 1955 whose title starts "Karl Kae Knecht, Famed Cartoonist, Returns To Old Home..."http://content.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=51530&iid=News-SO-HU_AN_DA_PL.1955_07_12-0005&desc=%22Karl+Kae+Knecht%22&veil=1&o_xid=18704&o_lid=18704&offerid=0%3a7797%3a0. Also, more significantly, a book "The world of Karl Kae Knecht through his cartoons" was published in 1979, 5 years afte his deathhttp://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AThe+World+of+Karl+Kae+Knecht+Through+His+Cartoons&qt=advanced. I do not have access to this book at the moment but from what I understood from this linkhttp://family-knecht.tripod.com/pafn65.htm, that is a book written by another person, Philip Ensley, professor of history at the University of Evansville, about Knecht's art (with, presumably, a substantial amount of biographical info). I think that this book alone already makes him pass , even though it is not exactly a biography
— User:Nsk92, 21:33, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)