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The result was Withdrawn by nominator Niteshift36 ( talk) 07:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC) reply
Simply fails WP:BIO. Subject was a minor character in the Tombstone/OK Corral saga that achieved little in the way of notability on his own. Article had some refs that no longer function (mostly to non-reliable sources). It does cite one book as a reference (although without any inline citations) and in explaining it's relevence, even the article author refers to Stilwell as a "minor Tombstone character". Niteshift36 ( talk) 23:31, 30 January 2010 (UTC) reply
Not a great deal is known about F. Stilwell, although more is being collected as time goes by. I suggest you give it some moretime. He is a pivotal figure. He probably murdered Morgan Earp, or else was in the party that did. His murder by Wyatt Earp (one of just two men Wyatt was thought to have killed without assistance) is the reason for the arrest warrants issued for Earp, Holliday, Johnson and McMasters, that finally drove Earp and Holliday out of Arizona, never to return. As such, somebody has had to play Stilwell in every film about Tombstone and Earp.
People want to know about Stilwell. His Wiki page was viewed 1837 times in just the month of Dec. 2009, and gets 50 hits a day or so. http://stats.grok.se/en/200912/Frank%20Stilwell How many BLP figures can you say the same of? The major source of the public's correct info on the man (like his name spelling) is actually the page you want to delete. He gets about 40,000 hits on Google, most of them to the right guy. But many of them are due to this page. S B H arris 05:40, 31 January 2010 (UTC) reply
Stilwell, acquitted or not, was mentioned in many newspapers of the time, and seems likely to have been planning an assassination when he died (what else was he doing armed in the trainyard in the middle of the night? Trainspotting?). The multiple newspaper accounts for multiple events make him notable. His mention in multiple places in every book on Earp and Tombstone (of which there are a couple of dozen) make him notable. Far more notable than most of the bio subjects in Wikipedia. S B H arris 21:08, 31 January 2010 (UTC) reply
As to WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS that is a severe misuse of WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, which you really should read. Including this part which states (please read this three times): "Thus 'inherent notability' is basically codification of OSE [Other stuff exists]." Another way of saying that the fact that a heck of a lot of other stuff exists, is one way of detecting what the WP:consensus on a given notability issue is. In fact, it is the only good way, and the example given is that high schools are notable but grade schools are not. Why? Because of the way WP has always done it, is why. The appeal that this is OTHERSTUFF backfires there, because OTHERSTUFF tells you how we do things, particularly in the area of notability. So you swim against the tide, here. S B H arris 23:36, 31 January 2010 (UTC) reply