Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greene Fort Pinkston


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 03:27, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Greene Fort Pinkston

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Not notable Rathfelder (talk) 14:48, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:08, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep As someone whose parents were likely born as slaves and ended up as a prosperous physician and landowner, this individual is "notable" by common definitions of the word. The question whether there is enough written about him by WP:RS sources to support a standalone article is a more difficult one. This newspaper article contains the most detail I could find online and it also mention's a 1963 Memphis Press-Scimitar article about Pinkston by Clark Porteous, which should be available in library archives. Combined with the Arcadia Publishing book entry  already included as a reference, I find the decision a close one. Some will likely say that the offered sources are merely local or regional coverage, but I think it would be unrealistic to expect wider coverage for, as the above newspaper article's author put it: "an African-American man who overcame the obstacles thrown in front of him by the Jim Crow South, to become an important landowner and physician". 24.151.116.12 (talk) 17:24, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep (edit conflict) - Subject passes WP:V, article passes WP:NPOV, WP:NOR. Individual was one of the earliest black doctors in the Memphis area and one of the earliest black drug company owners in America. I don't seem to have access to the archives of the Memphis Commercial Appeal or the Memphis Press Scimitar, but both of those newspapers would be useful places to look for more coverage of the individual, indeed the 2016 article from the Appeal by Wright references a 1963 article (possibly an obit) in the Scimtar. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:25, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep -- His birth was too late for him to have been a slave, though presumably his parents had been. Nevertheless as a pioneer of Black achievement, he is probably notable.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:40, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
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