Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua H. Berkey


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The result was keep. WP:HEY close, notability concerns were addressed by User:Carrite's improvements to the article. (non-admin closure) Cavarrone 12:23, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Joshua H. Berkey

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Mr. Berkey does not meet the requirements for ex officio inclusion under WP:NPOL since he is an unsuccessful political candidate nor does the article look to meet WP:ANYBIO. Dolotta (talk) 00:54, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom and WP:GNG. Comatmebro  User talk:Comatmebro 02:49, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable unsuccessful candidate. Delete as per above. Your welcome &#124; Democratics Talk 10:26, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep, he appears to have been a figure of some importance among reformers and temperance advocates in his region back in the day. A detailed biography of Berkey begins on p. 694 of Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Higginson Book Company, 1901.  And he is certainly easy to find in news archive searches, including both general circulation newspapers (national not just regional; the New York and other out of state papers covered his campaigns) and in Prohibition newspapers like the American Advance, an old prohibition newspaper that needs an article.  Berkley edited a regional temperance newspaper (called The Crank, presumably because old time presser were operated with a crank) in Kansas for several years.  He was then called to a pulpit in Monroe, Wisconsin, a post he held for the rest of his life.  It was as a popular public speaker for the reform causes of the era that he ran for office several times.  The fact is that we don't cover this era very well.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:24, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - I could see how he would be mentioned in other further Prohibition articles if they expand. --FuzzyGopher (talk)
 * Keep per E.M.Gregory-thank you-RFD (talk) 01:12, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment E.M.Gregory -- Would you be willing to take what you've found and put it into the article? I'm always excited to learn something new! Dolotta (talk) 02:15, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 05:03, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 05:03, 14 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep - Passes GNG. The intent of the Special Notability Guideline (high bar) for losing candidates, I believe, is to block self-serving political propaganda from contemporary wankers on the make, not to filter out historical biography. Finishing in third place in a gubernatorial race from a century ago is a sure-fire indicator that this was a public figure worthy of encyclopedic biography. Carrite (talk) 18:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - I will spend a few minutes this morning trying to take this microstub up to a useful size. Carrite (talk) 18:02, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - Substantial improvement done and a bit more to come. It is worth noting that the death of the prominent Wisconsin temperance lecturer Berkey in 1911 was deemed front page news in one Abilene, Kansas newspaper SEE HERE. Carrite (talk) 20:12, 14 November 2016 (UTC)


 * WP:HEYMANN Kudos to User:Carrite. We can KEEP this with confidence.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:28, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per Carrite. Thanks for your work in rescuing this article.  Royal broil  13:52, 19 November 2016 (UTC)


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