Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fredrick Brennan
The Al Jazeera America article and the New York Times article are significant coverage, and don't even mention 8chan or GamerGate. They are about him and his life. His life happens to be continuously influenced by his disability - he can't walk, he can barely pick anything up, his tools to do something as simple as turn on faucets break every month, pretty much all he can do is type. But that's not an event, that's a life. '''Having a disability is not '''. We have plenty of articles about people notable strictly due to their disability, from Terry Wiles to Joseph Merrick to almost all the :Category:People with gigantism, to ... no doubt everyone can think of many many others. Yes, those two articles about his life despite his disability by themselves would suffice for . But that's not all he's notable for. He's not . He's not a victim, solely the face of his disability, he's very much his own man. He's notable for, ''despite'' his disability, and holding down two jobs, doing things that had nothing to do with his disability, namely founding 8chan, ''and'' being a prominent voice on GamerGate. He is the person that the Huffington Post and The David Pakman Show - major sources - went to for long interviews about it. Ryulong, who no doubt will be here soon to argue for deletion, wrote on the article talk page: "he's certainly no Helen Keller", and that's quite right. Helen Keller got most of her fame from her disabilities; Fredrick Brennan is getting fame for something that has nothing to do with his
— User:GRuban, 05:18, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP1E||WP:GNG||WP:AVOIDVICTIM (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)