Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles E. Maple


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 11:17, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Charles E. Maple

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Claim to fame is being a state parks official and chamber of commerce official; no evidence of significant third-party WP:RS coverage to meet WP:BIO. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:05, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete neither positions nor coverage establish notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:06, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep the article meets the general notability guideline based on the reliable sources, not on any inherent notability of any position he held. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 19:25, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. The references are just about useless. Many of them are from the Minden Press-Herald, a local paper of unspecified circulation of which he happened to have been an editor. The rest are even worse. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:46, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep notable as a journalist in several states. Should not be under the politicians listing, but journalist.Billy Hathorn (talk) 04:04, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * "Notable as a journalist" Clarityfiend (talk) 01:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment So being the news editor of a few small town newspapers now makes one notable? OhNo itsJamie Talk 23:53, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 02:25, 21 February 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Keep as subject is the focus of sufficient reliable third-party coverage to cross the verifiability and notability thresholds for WP:GNG. Notability is not a competition. - Dravecky (talk) 18:53, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Looks like a whole swamp of unverified material in associated articles as well. The Shreveport Times obituary, claimed to have been successfully retrieved just a few days ago, seems to have been giving a 404 since at least July 2011 according to the Internet Archive. Samsara 14:29, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 16:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. The 404 matter has been corrected. Billy Hathorn (talk) 16:54, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, with regret. The article, which I first presumed to be a memorial created by someone close to Mr. Maple, is in fact one of a remarkable series of biographical article created over many years by User:Billy Hathorn.  I readily see why this was created by Hathorn, who, I assume, stumbled upon Maple while writing articles about newspapers, editors and publishers in the region.  I assume that the details of Maples life as presented here are accurate and verified.  However, the article fails to pass WP:GNG.  Maple was an editor for a series of small papers, but not ever an editor-in-chief and never worked on a major paper. Other positions were things like running a small town chamber of commerce.  Crucially, he attracted no coverage in third part reliable sources at all. It is not even clear whether the obit was editorial, or produced by the family.   Like Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life, Maple appears to have led a worthy life, of interest to only his own circle of loved ones.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:37, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable per WP:GNG and E.M.Gregory's eloquent comment. Bishonen &#124; talk 20:59, 7 March 2015 (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.