This article was nominated for deletion on 7 August 2011 (UTC). The result of the discussion was speedy keep.
A fact from Clinton L. Riggs appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 July 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Clinton L. Riggs got along so poorly with most of his comrades in the Spanish–American War that he resigned upon returning stateside, only to later take command of the same unit?
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This is a well-written, carefully sourced article about a man who almost became notable for one or two of his accomplishments. But as I understand WP:GNG, that isn't enough, and I am submitting the article for an AFD review. Strikehold (talk·contribs), who did all of the non-trivial edits to the article in July 2010, created a good-looking article with the material available on the subject, but the result does not amount to notability. Since {{Infobox college coach}} was used in the article, the first test for notability I considered was WP:ATH#Amateur sports persons, but his 1-1 record coaching a college lacrosse team doesn't seem to establish notability. The next check was at http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0717F93E55157A93C1A81782D85F4C8385F9; that NYT article notes he was "prominent in Baltimore society", something the Men of Mark in Marylandbook scanned by Google seems to corroborate, but the dozen or more actual details that made it into the article suggest that Clinton L. Riggs is a subject in that book because of one or more of his ancestors, perhaps George Washington Riggs or Elisha Riggs, and being a Riggs descendent doesn't in itself confer notability. None of the details in the section on his career establish notability. My conclusion is that if there were a Riggs family article in Category:American families, Clinton Levering Riggs might warrant some details there, but WP:1E (the event in this case being his membership in a prominent family) and WP:GNG suggest we don't have enough for an independent article. 67.101.6.202 (talk) 21:34, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
