Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard B. Chase


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The result was Draftify. Liz Read! Talk! 04:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Howard B. Chase

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Minimally sourced stub, of the "Subject was a person who had a job, the end" variety, of a former chairman of the board of a media company. While this would be enough to get him an article if some actual substance about his work could be referenced to enough reliable source coverage about it to get him over WP:GNG for it, it isn't "inherently" notable enough to require keeping a 19-word stub that's referenced exclusively to a list of past presidents on the company's own self-published website about itself. Bearcat (talk) 20:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwaiiplayer (talk) 12:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Move to draft and tag for expansion. If it doesn't come, this will be deleted as a matter of course. BD2412  T 21:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep He was awarded the CBE for his war work. I think he was more notable as a union leader, he was president of the Canadian Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He died February 1973, there are a number of obituaries on Newspaper.com but I don't have access but here's a report from Google Newspapers: Funeral for Former Union Chief Piecesofuk (talk) 13:46, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's a link to The London Gazette for his CBE named Howard Brown Chase. Piecesofuk (talk) 13:54, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Draftify It needs more than a single reference. What is the point of these single line articles. They don't benefit anybody, nobody reads them.   scope_creep Talk  10:18, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Draftify Agree, he has several mentions in GBooks, one in a magazine, but I only can get a snipet view, this looks like an article. . Oaktree b (talk) 15:02, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep There are hundreds of articles about him in Newspapers.com. I've expanded the article a bit based on them and will develop the article further as we go along. But clear notability as a prominent trade union leader and public official, plus a wartime CBE (the highest a Canadian could get as the knighthoods were closed to them). Atchom (talk) 15:15, 5 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Draftify Needs expansion. Likely passes WP:GNG once draft has been fleshed out. Deletion premature. NiklausGerard (talk) 19:04, 8 April 2022 (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.