The result was no consensus, default to keep. Jayjg (talk) 02:01, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Despite the subject of this BLP's having been involved in notable events (namely, the "Suu Kyi trespasser incidents") he yet remains, at least to this point in time, a non-public person of no notability independent from those events, whose biographical details gleaned from press reports seem rather speculative and gossipy to me. [BTW, note that I could have simply left "John Yettaw" as a redirect to the article about the event and simply removed the gossipy and heavily speculative material from out of the biographical section at that article, but instead I chose to leave this biographical material here and nominate it for deletion in order to ensure more editors review such a determination; anyway, I hope the avenue I've taken here isn't deemed to be too irregular.] ↜ (‘Just M E ’here , now) 21:19, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
-- whereas CNN's "American Morning" co-host/anchor Kiran Chetry says yes:"According to family members, Yettaw was a veteran of the Vietnam War with nearly two years of battle experience, and was once wounded in action. However, records from the National Personnel Records Center show that he was stationed in West Germany, not Vietnam"
IMO Yettaw's background pretty much remains his personal business, its not yet having passed into anything approximating "verified and accurate, public knowledge" at all. Note the quote by the associate of Yettaw's that Dirk Vanderhart and Susan Saulny (The New York Times) used in the following:"Motivated by visions, the retired bus driver and Vietnam vet wanted to do something to bring attention to the plight of the Myanmar people. But the plan met with objections from his family."
Despite the fact that, as M.J. Stephey (Dec. 8th Time magazine) has written, Yettaw has become "a magnet for international scorn and speculation" . . ."Mr. Webb described him after the release as 'not a well man' but also added: 'I believe what happened was regrettable. He was trying to help. He’s not a mean-spirited human being.' ¶ Mr. Yettaw’s neighbors and friends said they had been praying for his safety, even while they do not fully understand what happened in Myanmar or why he went. Some thought the trip had to do with graduate studies in psychology, or perhaps a book Mr. Yettaw told them he wanted to write. ¶ 'I’ll be glad to see him back,' said one friend, Michael Assel, a retired Navy officer. 'I would not question his motives like so many people have done. In my opinion, it’s just his business. He got in trouble and for a while, it looked like he wouldn’t get home, but he did, so I’m happy about that.'"
↜ (‘Just M E ’here , now) 23:39, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]“Wikipedia is not[...]a vehicle for propaganda[...]. Therefore, content hosted in Wikipedia is not for[...s]candal mongering or gossip. Articles about living people are required to meet an especially high standard, as they may otherwise be libellous or infringe the subjects' right to privacy. Articles should not be written purely to attack the reputation of another person.”
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