Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. Frank Diggs


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:37, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

J. Frank Diggs

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I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline and the more detailed Notability (biographies) requirement. " It was deprodded by User:Valoem with meaningless and unhlepful rationale "Contested prod" (despite the fact that I explicitly asked for a proper explanation in the PROD). So, now we are here. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 20:08, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you try searching for sources? My Google search came up with this obituary as the second result. FloridaArmy (talk) 21:48, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Obituaries, or worse, a single one, are not considered sufficient for a source. Depends a bit on their quality, Washington Post is good, through in this case not sufficient I think because "For three years before joining the Army early in World War II, Mr. Diggs was a writer with The Washington Post." so it seems pretty clear he got his obit there because he used to know the right people and they did him (his family) a favor. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 19:25, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting in part per new sources provided, which were added to the article on 17 January 2018‎.
 * Delete - Being a POW fails WP:SOLDIER. Diggs' book, The Welcome Swede, seems to be out of print and is available only from resellers on Amazon.com, where it's number 4,364,115 on the best seller list.-- Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 17:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete one source is not enough to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:00, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - A quick search finds the Washington Post obit (which was carried in other papers, I added a link to it and to one in the Camden Courier-Post), and a dozen or so google book results. The books all discuss Frank's experience in WWII as a POW and his escape. This experience was in his book, Oflag-64, which appears to still be in print, as is another of his books, Americans Behind Barbed Wire. In particular, his coverage in Dando-Collins 2017 is quite extensive, I've added that source to his page. His work writing a paper while a POW was somewhat unique, although he wasn't the only POW to do so it did receive some attention in the papers during the war, I added a link to one such report from 1944 in the Baltimore Sun. I think that these three references plus the numerous other references one can find at google books suffice to show that he is the subject of multiple in-depth reliable sources independent of the subject. His career was sufficiently interesting that I do not think 1E applies. The sources I've added and the new, longer article passes WP:V, WP:NPOV, and WP:NOR. Looking at the google books results I linked above, his writing on POWs may pass NSOLDIER #8 and NAUTHOR #4, although given the multiple sources, I think he passes GNG, which is sufficient. Smmurphy(Talk) 06:35, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:40, 18 January 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:46, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep the added obits meet WP:GNG standard. --RAN (talk) 05:04, 26 January 2018 (UTC)


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