Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bradley Ayers


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:50, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Bradley Ayers

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According to the obituary in a local paper, Ayres was an Army officer "temporarily assigned to the CIA to train anti-Castro exiles in South Florida" in early 1963. I believe that much to be true. Apparently this tenuous link to the CIA gave him credibility among a) a few of the conspiracy-minded when he published a whodunit of the JFK assassination and b) others (i.e. Shane O'Sullivan) who say that Ayres looked at a photo and confirmed the presence of a conspirator in RFK assassination. For good or bad, there is no significant coverage about his claims in reliable secondary sources independent of the subject. The Wikipedia article cites a local paper stating that he set an ascent record of Mt. Whitney, but this is something easily refuted by a quick Google search. Location (talk) 23:24, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Minnesota-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 02:27, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete To many of the top Google hit are to self-published media and blogs to establish notability.-- Georgia Army Vet  Contribs  Talk  03:02, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, outside a possible WP:Fringe mention. And Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Kierzek (talk) 12:13, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Definitely not notable under WP:SOLDIER. Has written two books but hardly best-sellers. WP:FRINGE; some material could be added to Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. (I can see the headline of the next edition of The Lone Gunman: "Wikipedia Covers Up RFK Assassination". )  Hawkeye7   (talk)  22:32, 26 July 2017 (UTC)


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