Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houston Conley


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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 21:06, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Houston Conley

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Run-of-the-mill person. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NACADEMIC. Not seeing any independent in-depth coverage in reliable sources, either those in the article or elsewhere online - lack of WP:SIGCOV. Edwardx (talk) 20:08, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Alabama.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:Prof on GS cites in a highly cited field. No pass of GNG. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:09, 6 April 2022 (UTC).
 * Comment: would be notable if the claim in the lead were true: helping to "launch and facilitate desegregation in the United States education system" is a pretty big thing. But the cited sources don't really back up that claim. StAnselm (talk) 16:09, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails notability, misleading/improperly-sourced. In my own research I found no sources linking subject to academics and segregation, or anything of note. NiklausGerard (talk) 20:30, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete since subject does not clear the notability hurdle. All we have are name-drops in listings such as this or in articles about someone else entirely, such as this reference in an article about Conley's descendant Mike Conley Jr.; irrelevancies such as this or this; and so on. The claim, right in the opening paragraph that Conley is "known for helping launch and facilitate desegregation in the United States education system" is an inexcusable exaggeration. And the fact that the article was created by a banned sockpuppet with many a now-deleted text in their record does not help at all. -The Gnome (talk) 20:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)


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