Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Moore (contemporary pioneer)


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The result was delete. Those who think the article needed more sources are right - but they should have provided them during this AfD. Sandstein (talk) 09:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

John Moore (contemporary pioneer)

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Administrator, activist and author. Several external links but do any actually refer to John Moore? Is he notable outside northwest Ohio? -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 15:30, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. This person has qualities of being notable. The article can benefit from further improvements, including more specific verifiable sources, and I would like to give the Wikipedia community time to do that. Truthanado (talk) 15:36, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:LOCAL. First black guy on a particular bank's board seems to be the primary claim of notability here. No attribution of such notability to independent sources, though. The disambiguation phrase "contemporary pioneer", I'm afraid, screams "reaching". --Dhartung | Talk 00:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless notability can be shown. Notability as an author hasn't been shown, nor has notability as the first person of a particular race on a particular board. If the article is kept, it definitely needs renaming. --Fabrictramp (talk) 15:47, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, source and rename Seems like notability couldn't be established with better sourcing, there is a link to a newspaper quote by him. Avruch talk 03:34, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't find any sources to confirm notability. —S MALL  JIM   18:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Though his quote in a newspaper is promising, there is no source of that. The rest is minor stuff that hardly indicates notability. Master of Puppets Call me MoP!  23:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


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