Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Forrest Guth


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 12:03, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Forrest Guth

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Forrest Guth was a junior NCO in E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. He participated in the three major actions involving E Company, although he was injured parachuting into the Netherlands and was evacuated. He fails to meet WP:SOLDIER based on rank (sergeant) or awards (Purple Heart). After the War, he taught school in Virginia and Delaware and does not meet WP:GNG. A book by Larry Alexander, In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers, subtitled "A return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth," was about the company not Guth. The source of the citations in the article is unclear; the page numbers don't match content of the copy of Alexander's book I was able to check out of my local library. Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 00:56, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   13:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - Before the AfD, I expanded the article slightly to add information, largely coming from a 1993 interview with Guth by a (local) Wilmington, Delaware newspaper in the wake of Ambrose's 1992 original BoB book. The interview provides a few details about Guth's role in the book which are independent from the book itself, including his role as an interviewee and the use of his photos in the book. I also added a local source about his teaching career (there are a few other very passing mentions about this I did not add) and one local source about the use of his cabinets in a church (based on his late in life hobby). I'm not terribly happy with the state of the article, a few BoB individuals articles which were deleted were in a better state than this one. But I find the added details, especially from the 1993 interview, enough that I think there is encyclopedic content about this individual (passes V and NOR if the museums section is cited or cut; could likely pass NPOV if the military sections are reworded to reflect the less than reliable nature of some sources). I also note that the de Trez book about Guth is published by a publisher about which I could not find details, and I do not know if it should be considered very reliable. Smmurphy(Talk) 14:30, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: the subject does not meet WP:SOLDIER and did not archieve anything significant otherwise. The name is not mention in the narrative in either the book nor the TV series article, so not suitable for a redirect either. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:43, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Can't see any notability. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:24, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete nothing comes close to notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)


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