Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ira Blue


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  06:38, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Ira Blue

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I've been searching and I've failed to find sources that are reliable and are actually about Ira Blue. All I've found is a short mention at a local hall of fame website (http://bayarearadio.org/hof/2006/). The web search results show mostly retirement investments and whitepages & Facebook listings, and that's after excluding the word Gershwin from the search. This person is probably not notable. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:54, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ☮ JAaron95  Talk  13:33, 15 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep - Secondary sources support notability. My search of the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Books turned up several references. Called a "legendary broadcaster' in this San Francisco Chronicle article. Another Chronicle article says "A staple of the KGO radio staff from the 1940s, he also helped pioneer the station's nascent talk show format with his broadcasts from the hungry i."  Plenty of mentions  as a legendary broadcaster with a Google Books search as well, especially with "San Francisco" or "KGO"  From the Radio Museum's website, Bayarearadio: "Ira Blue at KGO in San Francisco was one of my radio heroes. I first "met" him when I called his show, at the hungry i, from my first small town radio job in 1959. It was as if I had spoken to the gods."  Also, an interesting youtube mention of Ira Blue and San Francisco fishing boats here.

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * It would be doing the history of radio, and those interested in it, a disservice to delete this wiki.ABF99 (talk) 00:30, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:00, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is WP:NOTMEMORIAL. The SF Chronicle pieces have short mentions of the subject, embedded in long lists of other names. The first are the reminiscences of a fellow radio broadcaster, the second the list of the 2006 inductees into the "Bay Area Radio Hall oF Fame" created and selected by two radio fans. None of the articles is about Ira Blue. Article is currently unsourced (one dead link) and no other coverage to be found. Kraxler (talk) 14:35, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete A handful of passing mentions is not enough to establish notability. Fails WP:GNG. Me5000 (talk) 02:09, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


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