Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bad Eagle


 * 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. -- Cirt (talk) 03:37, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Bad Eagle

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Article whose only sources are four right-wing, non-RS websites, and which gives no proof of the subject's notability. In fact, the creator and major contributor to the article is User: Bad Eagle, an apparent WP: SPA who only edits articles related to Bad Eagle and David Yeagley:, and who may be Yeagley himself. In fact, Yeagley's claim to be descended from Bad Eagle, which this article presents as fact, is quite questionable (see Talk: David A. Yeagley). Were it not for Yeagley, in my opinion, no one would be talking about Bad Eagle; Yeagley himself is only barely notable, and I don't think Bad Eagle is notable at all. Stonemason89 (talk) 17:37, 22 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: A search through Google Books shows that the first hit is (predictably enough) Yeagley's book about his alleged ancestor. None of the other hits have anything to do with this Bad Eagle; according to Books and News searches, there appear to be several other Bad Eagles, at least one of whom (unlike this guy) actually had the title "Chief Bad Eagle". I can't find any non-Yeagley sources that would indicate that this Bad Eagle is notable. Stonemason89 (talk) 17:46, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not familiar with the Indigenous people project, but since it's their area I'd defer to them. I can imagine it's difficult to provide RS for people with an oral tradition. AliveFreeHappy (talk) 23:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:54, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete The entire article is based on unreliable sourcing, all of it traceable to David Yeagley, and seems intended to promote Yeagley's non-notable nonprofit, the Bad Eagle Foundation. --MelanieN (talk) 16:14, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.