Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe A. Kelly


 * 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 DELETE. -Splash - tk 23:18, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Joe A. Kelly
Article on some local newspaper writer doesn't assert notability. Seems to read like an obituary. waffle iron talk 16:40, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, sports editor (not just "some newspaper writer") at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. NawlinWiki 18:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, there are thousands of sports editors, and no indication why this one was notable outside of Lubbock. Reads like an obit.--Dhartung | Talk 19:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: Fails WP:BIO, WP:V. Heck, I bet that's a copyvio from a published obit, come to that.  Two of the three links are extremely trivial mentions ("Joe Kelly, a former veteran sports writer for The Avalanche-Journal, also remembers the fire, but said it didn't affect the stadium significantly." is the sum total of one of the links) and the third is locked to registered users.  May I ask what elements of WP:BIO this fellow is purported to pass?    RGTraynor  20:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Articles by this author frequently read like obituaries precisely because this author frequently creates biographical articles sourced by just about nothing more than a person's obit in the local paper.  (That's what the third, registered-users only link is: the guy's obit in the local paper, which is quite obviously the only source for this article.)  The author has been cautioned about copying and pasting such obits and has since generally made the effort to at least re-word each sentence first in an effort to avoid copyvio's.  Author has turned a deaf ear to all requests to stop creating such bio's in the first place, though.  Family-provided obituaries are not an indicator of notability (anyone can get one) and are not fact-checked to be reliable sources.  As noted above, this article provides only trivial mentions of his notability in Lubbock, Texas, and nothing to indicate he had even the slightest notability anywhere else. Mwelch 01:32, 22 May 2007 (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.