User talk:BrandonEchols

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Your AfC submission
Firstly, I want to express my sympathy for your loss. Losing Granddad is very difficult for any guy. It's especially difficult when your grandfather was a figure to be looked up to for the whole community. I truly mean that, and that makes writing the rest of this difficult. The most important link I left you on your draft was NOTMEMORIAL. It's very difficult to write a Wikipedia biography on someone you know or knew well. It's doubly harder when your thoughts are covered in grief. Being dedicated to a high school athletic program is a good and noble thing. All across the US, there are men and women that owe much of their successes and even in some cases their very lives to a high school coach. I applaud your effort to keep his memories alive, but unfortunately, Wikipedia isn't the place to do it. As I said above, impactful coaches are not uncommon. Neither are successful coaches. The only references you have are a legacy.com obituary, all of which fail our standard for reliable sources and an obituary from a local paper. If that obituary was written by a reporter at the paper, it would be considered a reliable source, but it wouldn't speak to notability at all as even journalistic obits are largely derived from interviewing family members and are therefore not independent. Obits submitted and paid for by the family or funeral director are not considered reliable at all. Encyclopedias are tertiary in nature which means most all of the content should be paraphrased from secondary sources. Perhaps you might better direct your efforts towards creating a webpage to memorialize him, or submitting a self authored biography to your local newspaper or perhaps the state athletic authority. I wish you the best at keeping your grandpa's memories alive and again extend my sympathy to you and your family. 4.37.252.50 (talk) 21:10, 13 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you. BrandonEchols (talk) 22:25, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: James Leroy Boyd (August 14)
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Dan arndt (talk) 08:10, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:James Leroy Boyd
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 04:05, 21 January 2024 (UTC)