Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marion Lee Kempner


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The result was redirect to Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. Redirection is the appropriate action per WP:ATD-R and the absence of BLP concerns.  A  Train talk 18:26, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Marion Lee Kempner

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Clearly does not meet WP:GNG, and certainly doesn't pass WP:NSOLDIER.  Onel 5969  TT me 19:19, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete No evidence of notability.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:15, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable for stand alone article. Trivia, in the end. Kierzek (talk) 20:22, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not meet either WP:GNG or WP:SOLDIER; notability is not inherited from the fact a segment of an anthology mentioned his writing home. A man who served his country and sadly did not come home, but Wikipedia is not a memorial. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:23, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Fails WP:SOLDIER and his letter does not particularly stand out compared to others written by soldiers.-- Georgia Army Vet  Contribs  Talk  18:03, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete fails notability guidelines for both writers and soldiers.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:00, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam - His story has been inspirational to many (for instance, here is a long article about Kemper from the Galveston Daily News in 1998 ), but most newspapers.com and google books results are about his letter. The letter is famous because it was collected in that anthology. The anthology receives a good deal of coverage and that article could be expanded (or an article on the book of the same title created), and discussion of why the letters were important added which could mention Kempner, particularly his characterization of America as a "a country of thorns and cuts", etc. So while the article doesn't currently mention Kempner, most people searching for Kempner will be doing so because of the anthology, and a redirect there seems appropriate. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:41, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. If redirected, then to an article about the book, which contains three of his letters. The Kempner article currently links to the movie; that should be fixed if a book article is created.-- Georgia Army Vet  Contribs  Talk  20:15, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Clear WP:SOLDIER fail, WP:NOTMEMORIAL.Icewhiz (talk) 11:56, 1 January 2018 (UTC)


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