Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gerald Caplan
The article definitely needs improvement, but in addition to the sources shown above he garners over 1,300 hits in ProQuest's Canadian Newsstream database (and no, that number's not a typo). He's not as visible in the media lately as he was in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but Wikipedia's notability criteria don't require ''recent'' media coverage — if we can dig out old stuff that predates googlability, it still counts toward passage of . Notability ultimately depends more on the ''existence'' of quality sources rather than their already being in the article — and the necessary quality of sources is very much out there
— User:Bearcat, 04:46, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)