Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Encouraging Bear


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The result was keep. North America1000 08:37, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Encouraging Bear

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Fails WP:BASIC and WP:ANYBIO. Unable to locate any significant biographical details in secondary sources. This and this had some information, but hardly enough to support notability. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:38, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
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 * Comment My time is limited now, but I added a source. DiamondRemley39 (talk) 00:48, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Per this bio generations of Lakota medicine trained under him. There is a book written about his medicine powers, Talking to Spirits: Talismanic Relics of the Lakota Medicine Man, Pte He Woptuha and a second book as well. He is holy powers are also written about here in Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual. He is a significant holy man to his people. oncamera   (talk page)  00:09, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Neither of those links seems to be a WP:RS. Both appear to be self-published websites. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep based on Oncamera sources above and I believe more can be found.  // Timothy ::  talk  18:50, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep this notable and influential (sources to come later) medicine man. Note that I had better luck finding him under the name "Horn Chips" and that may be a more fitting name for this article. DiamondRemley39 (talk) 23:12, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete unless more material can be provided. Appears to fail WP:1E. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:03, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets GNG, and not just for any one event, not just for being Crazy Horse's medicine man, but as a famed medicine man in his own right:, (reviewed  and mentioned ), ,  (reviewed ), ,  and possibly  (reviewed ). These are all academic, and some of the books were reviewed in journals. The books cover Horn Chips's entire life (not just his connection to Crazy Horse, though of course that factors in heavily) and provide plenty of detail that can be used for an article. Plus this newspaper article: . Lev!vich 22:32, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Clearly meets GNG, thanks to the research done by and .  Netherzone (talk) 22:40, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Thank you for your research. Passes our notability guidelines. Lightburst (talk) 23:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep The article reads saved traditional Lakota religion from extinction. Sounds like a notable achievement.  Others have found sources proving his notability even more.    D r e a m Focus  23:55, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per the sources identified and added to the article. — Toughpigs (talk) 00:03, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per above stated arguments and additional sources added.Tsistunagiska (talk) 20:56, 2 October 2020 (UTC)


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