Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leon Batie, Jr.


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The result was   delete \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 00:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Leon Batie, Jr.

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Removed prod, bringing it to AFD for further discussion. Article is about a U.S. Army officer who received a small burst (and I do mean small) of news coverage when some fast food franchises he owned were seized by the company for being an absentee owner. This may have been a sad misjustice, however there are some serious issues with the subject of the article, such as: 1) Article appears to be autobiographical, raising serious conflict of interest concerns. 2) All published, reliable information about the subject is about this single issue, raising serious WP:BLP1E concerns. 3) The entire article seems to be a coat rack to allow the author of the article to complain about the unfair treatment he received. 4) Per WP:NOTNEWS, human interest stories such as this aren't really appropriate for an encyclopedia. I cannot find any way the subject of this article merits inclusion in Wikipedia even considering this single news story, and as such it should be deleted. Jayron32. talk . contribs 12:30, 25 June 2009 (UTC) Merge or Delete If you have an article somewhere concerning the legal aspect of deployment on the home front this would go well there, otherwise it wounds like an ad and really ought to be deleted. TomStar81 (Talk) 16:46, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete. BLP1E. KillerChihuahua?!? 00:09, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BIO and WP:NOTNEWS. Although unfortunate, the article falls short of Wikipedia's guidelines for inclusion. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 01:02, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BLP1E. I was going to suggest to the author that they put the info elsewhere, but I see that has already been done. Johnuniq (talk) 09:16, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete: I sympathise with the individual, however, I believe that the article has a number of issues. Firstly it is not written in a neutral or encyclopedic tone. Secondly the individual does not necessarily appear to meet the notability guidelines. Certainly the case is notable, though, so as suggested above by other users the information could be merged to other areas where appropriate. For instance perhaps an article that discusses provisions for protecting civilian livelihoods of Reservists on deployment? — AustralianRupert (talk) 02:31, 29 June 2009 (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.