Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerry Golden


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Jack Frost (talk) 01:38, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Jerry Golden

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Being the person on a particular radio station who was the first on that radio station to report the Kennedy assasination is not a sign of notability. The one source is a caption to a picture in a books that is exhaustively about the radio station he worked for. I searched for additional sources in all the listed possible source leads connected with the 10-year-old notice on the page of being of unquestioned notability, but I did not find any other sources. Everything else that showed up was about other Jerry Golden's in other places and times. This guy was a local radio personality who is just plain not notable. John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:32, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Assassination of John F. Kennedy or somewhere within the article. Falls under WP:1E for being known for covering JFK's assassination. SBKSPP (talk) 01:15, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Except his coverage was on one local station in one local market far from the scene. His coverage has no relevance to the event itself.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:19, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The characterization of Golden as an announcer "on one local station in one local market" is misleading. He was one of the leading personalities on WLS, a 50,000 watt megastation whose signal covered five states and much of the Midwest. Cbl62 (talk) 18:13, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Meets WP:BASIC with sources presented by CBL. SBKSPP (talk) 03:17, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Coolperson177 (talk) 21:07, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 *  Delete  – the best I could find is this, which isn't enough on its own. (Multiple sources are needed, and it's arguably too local to be significant.) I don't think a redirect would be helpful given that Golden played no noteworthy role in the assassination and isn't mentioned in the article. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:39, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm somewhat chagrined to see how many sources I failed to find. The coverage below is more than adequate to meet WP:BASIC, particularly considering that "if the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability". The first and second sources below each constitute sigcov on their own, and the third, fourth, and fifth ones are easily enough to push Golden over the notability finish line. Good work, Cbl62. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:19, 20 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep. Notable for far more than his broadcast of the Kennedy assassination. Had a 35-year career as a leading voice of Chicago radio (see here) and has WP:SIGCOV of the type required to pass GNG. In addition to the item referenced by ((1) here), my searches turned up (2) this comprehensive biographical piece from the Chicago Tribune. See also (3) this, (4) this, and (5) this. Cbl62 (talk) 17:57, 20 August 2021 (UTC)


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