Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. Leonard Johnson


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The result was delete. Yunshui 雲 水 13:21, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

J. Leonard Johnson

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I cannot find any verification that this person existed, much less meets the threshold of notability. The article seems compiled by a family member interested in genealogy. —МандичкаYO 😜 05:04, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 17:11, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - On the face, this fails WP:V/WP:NOR. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:34, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:V. Smells like a hoax - I don't think the OSS was involved in the Manhattan project (it was involved in sniffing out the German project - but not stateside AFAIK). The name seems odd, Little Boy was also not an implosion device, and in general imploding a plutonium core is not a matter of the steel case, but rather of the explosive lenses.Icewhiz (talk) 13:40, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment -- This is a bad article, but I am not sure that it is a hoax. It says far too much about his ancestry and college career and far too little about his adult career, particularly after the war.  "Implosion" is clearly wrong, but there would have been a bomb casing, probably of steel for the 1st nukes.  The Manhattan Project was highly covert.  I suspect that the Project engineers ordered US Steel to provide a steel casing to direct the explosion inwards.  He might have led the team that created this, probably without knowing what it was for.  Googling produces some newspaper links that lead towards a paywall, but a couple of items look as if they may be verifiable.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:07, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yunshui 雲 水 09:01, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BIO and WP:GNG. According to Manhattan Project, over 130,000 people were involved. Being one of them does not automatically confer notability. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:32, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


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