Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Penale
It appears that the arguments for keeping this article are that: a) an umpiring award has been named in his honor, and b) an obituary was published in ''The Buffalo News.'' However, the award is one given by a local chapter of a state umpires association; I don't see that satisfying , which refers to "a well-known and significant award or honor"—I get zero hits when I search for "Frank Penale Award" in Google News archives. Regarding the obituary, I guess I'm just not willing to accept an obituary in a regional newspaper as sufficient to establish notability; newspapers regularly publish obituaries for people who are not notable in an encyclopedic context. Furthermore, although the subject's obituary appears to be behind a pay wall, I notice that the headline ("Frank R. Penale, Longtime Nabisco Worker") doesn't highlight either his umpiring or his military service, suggesting that the obituary writer didn't consider these activities to be especially notable. Ultimately, it comes down to |what Wikipedia is not—it is not a memorial site, it is not a directory, and it is not an indiscriminate collection of information. The justifications for this article seem to fit in those categories
— User:BRMo, 04:07, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ANYBIO||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Notability)