Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John G. (Jack) Samson


 * 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 Patar knight - chat/contributions 05:55, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

John G. (Jack) Samson

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Biography of a sport fisherman and author with no substantive or properly sourced indication of notability for either endeavour; as written, this is just a blurb which asserts his existence, and doesn't adequately demonstrate why his existence would be of concern to an encyclopedia. In addition, an anonymous IP has raised concerns that the closest thing to a "source" here, the authority control template, is inaccurately conflating the fly fisherman with an unrelated military historian of the same name. So no prejudice against recreation in the future if he can be properly sourced, but nothing claimed or sourced here makes this a keepable article in its existing state. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:29, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete as searches found a few links but nothing at all enough to suggest a keepable and improvable article. SwisterTwister   talk  22:20, 25 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Merge to Field & Stream . Neutral. The subject was an editor for the magazine from 1970–1972 and editor-in chief from 1972–1985. Some coverage is out there, but there may not be enough to retain the article. An extensive obituary was published by the Associated Press . There's an extensive piece about his life published by the Outdoor Writers Association of America, some content in Fly Life magazine , a paragraph in The New York Times and a short paragraph in Tuscon Citizen . The subject is presently not mentioned at the merge target article, so merging is functional to WP:PRESERVE appropriate content. North America1000 12:23, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete The references in the article provide significant coverage but are only obituaries; the additional ones listed above provide passing mentions; not enough for an article. I am always in favor of a redirect or merge when appropriate, but I don't think it works in this case. When I went to look at the proposed target article, I found no place to merge information to; none of the magazine's other editors are mentioned and it would be strange to add information about just one of them. So in this case I favor "delete". --MelanieN (talk) 01:37, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree with the above. Normally, I'd be all over any suggestion for a redirect if a reasonable target could be found, but you're right, it would be out of place given the current Field & Stream article.  I would be nice to include a section in that article listing all the editors-in-chief over the history of the magazine, but a little half-hearted searching didn't come up with an obvious source for that.  I suppose one could just read through the magazine archives and look at every masthead, but I'm not prepared to do that.  So, doing with delete -- RoySmith (talk) 14:39, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I changed my !vote above to "neutral". Information about Field & Stream editors is readily available in Google Books searches (e.g. ), but I don't feel like working on the article to add all of this content at this time. Maybe someone else will someday, or maybe not... North America1000 14:46, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 23:48, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Can't find enough in-depth coverage about him from independent, reliable sources. Obits are fine, but everybody gets one.  Onel 5969  TT me 23:44, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
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