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Identifying sole survivor
While Project Aviation seems to have a general consensus not to include names of non-notable people other than flight crew on aviation accident/incident articles, there should obviously be an exception for circumstances like the sole survivor of this accident. George Lamson Jr. is notable, but he is notable for being the sole survivor of this accident (he's even a subject of a documentary on sole survivors, Sole Survivor).
Per WP:BIO1E,
When an individual is significant for his or her role in a single event, it may be unclear whether an article should be written about the individual, the event or both. In considering whether or not to create separate articles, the degree of significance of the event itself and of the individual's role within it should both be considered. The general rule is to cover the event, not the person.
So this article covers the event, and is also the appropriate article to discuss the person. If you remove the references to the person here, then that would warrant creating a standalone article on him... which would conflict with WP:BIO1E. So, clearly there should be an exception to the "general consensus" where an individual has notability related to the aviation incident or accident, because it's recognition that the person is notable, the accident/incident page is just where the coverage of them and what makes them notable belongs. As a reminder, Wikipedia articles are about general notability, not just notability to the aviation community itself. Shelbystripes (talk) 23:43, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
- We generally don't name nonnotables who are passive participants, victims, witnesses, and so on, unless it's somehow necessary for article flow (as, for example, if by naming persons X and Y we can better narrate what happened to them). There's WAY too much about this guy, while at the same time there's a glaring contradiction: at one point we're rescuers found him still in his seat, at another we're told he was "up and walking before the arrival of emergency services". The name of the fire chief, what station number he was from, and all that other jazz add nothing to the reader's understanding. Even the bit about Jesse Jackson is apparently completely irrelevant. EEng 07:06, 21 January 2020 (UTC)