Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Walter Parker, Jr.


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 01:53, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

John Walter Parker, Jr.

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This article is about an individual with no reliable sources to establish notability, and more importantly satisfy verifiability as this is a biography of a living person. The claim to notability is that Parker is first African-American Head of General Surgery in the US Air Force. However the only references supplied in the article are from a personal interview by Laura Castoro which does not appear to be published anywhere. A search for "Laura Castoro" lead me to this writer whose full name is Laura Parker Castoro which may indicate a conflict of interest, and original research if the article creator is also this writer. Whpq (talk) 14:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Claim to significance is borderline at best. Source is completely unverifiable, and if verified would be a primary source making claims about self. Article author's only other edits are to insert this person's name into United States Air Force. Conflict of interest seems likely. / edg ☺ ☭ 16:34, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Have to support deletion, as the article doesn't have any reliable sources to prove anything. DARTH SIDIOUS 2 (Contact) 16:37, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete, regretfully. I'd really like to have an article here about this guy, because he sounds notable, but it's all unverified. Google search under various permutations of his name finds only Wikipedia-derived material. --MelanieN (talk) 15:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with all the above. Lack of sources is a dealbreaker for BLPs and, like the others above, some first-level web-searching turns up nothing. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2010 (UTC).
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