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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. Jake Wartenberg (talk) 14:20, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
Harold Gardner
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Subject's sole claim to fame is that they served in the military for one day, because the war ended right afterwards. Trivial press coverage on this basis. Otherwise utterly mundane life. Previous AfD in 2005 was kept based on non-policy arguments around his being one of the last surviving WWI vets, of which there are now none at all. BD2412 T 22:09, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. BD2412 T 22:09, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Bart Versieck, Dbiv, Durova, Endomion, Flyboy Will, Jeffrey O. Gustafson, JJay, KillerChihuahua, MisterHand, Moriori, Orbframe, Quarl, and Xoloz: - courtesy pinging participants from the 2005 discussion. BD2412 T 22:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Engineering, New York, and Pennsylvania. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:05, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete: The "Doughboy for a Day" article is fine, but I don't find other sources in books or news about this person. Hasn't really done anything else other than being in the army for a day. Likely not enough to build an article with. Oaktree b (talk) 01:06, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete It's unclear what the basis for notability is supposed to be. Reywas92Talk 14:14, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete it sounds like Gardner may not have even been formally inducted into the Army, and possibly if he was it was after the armistice was signed (aka the war had ended), so even the “last veteran claim is dubious. Best, GPL93 (talk) 03:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
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Neal Potter
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Biography of a politician, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NPOL. The notability claim here is that he was a county executive, which is not an "inherently" notable role that guarantees a Wikipedia article -- it's a role where he would have to pass the second clause of NPOL ("local political figures"), where the inclusion test hinges on the depth and volume of reliable source coverage about him that can be shown to support an article with. But except for one obituary upon his death, this is otherwise referenced entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability, with no other reliable or GNG-building sources shown.
As his career was several decades ago and thus might not Google well, I'd be perfectly happy to withdraw this if somebody with much better access to archived Arlington-area media coverage from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s than I've got can find enough to salvage it -- but nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have better referencing than this. Bearcat (talk) 11:02, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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- @Bearcat: Try https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ > https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/27/ > his name in Maryland newspapers. The Frederick News-Post seems to carry the most coverage, with hundreds of articles. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:45, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Economics, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Washington. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:59, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Keep -- based on his position as a county executive, I expected to give a delete opinion as that's the normal outcome for such roles. But a staff-written obituary in the Washington Post suggests he was considered notable beyond the typical holder of such a position. The other details (Plaza named for him) wouldn't generally be enough on their own, but together with the obit pushes above the bar for GNG keep. (would not pass WP:PROF on its own). -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 19:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Arlington County is literally suburbs of Washington DC, so the existence of a staff-written obituary in the Washington Post just suggests the exact same purely local notability that any county executive in any county could always show, and is not in and of itself enough to singlehandedly determine that he's more notable than the norm. So we would need to see a hell of a lot more than just that alone. Bearcat (talk) 16:22, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- Indeed I thought of that, but the Washington Post is not a local newspaper in the same way that say that Arlington Sun-Gazzette is. It was written by their same obituary staff as their other obituaries. I think that a look at their current obituaries will show that obituaries in the paper are dedicated to people whom they believe have more than local notability. I don't see, for instance, other local officials or former high school sports coaches there, except in the paid death notices section. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 22:54, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- Arlington County is literally suburbs of Washington DC, so the existence of a staff-written obituary in the Washington Post just suggests the exact same purely local notability that any county executive in any county could always show, and is not in and of itself enough to singlehandedly determine that he's more notable than the norm. So we would need to see a hell of a lot more than just that alone. Bearcat (talk) 16:22, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 01:44, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
Camp Amal
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Redirect to Habonim Dror, merging what's encyclopedic. Fails WP:NORG with no WP:SIGCOV for an otherwise non-notable summer camp. Both sources provided are WP:SPS and do not support WP:GNG. Longhornsg (talk) 08:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
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- 'Redirect - Agree here also MaskedSinger (talk) 08:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 13:16, 10 June 2024 (UTC)Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 05:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)