Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ora Railsback


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 00:44, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Ora Railsback

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Several searches have failed to turn up detailed discussion of this person, although there are a number of very brief mentions of him. I've found no indication that he meets WP:ACADEMIC or WP:PEOPLE. The article also says he invented the Stroconn but this seems inaccurate although it was based in part on his work. (which is the sort of brief mention I'm finding). Without coverage in depth I'm not sure that the brief, mainly one sentence mentions of him establish notability. Dougweller (talk) 12:18, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions  Occult Zone  ( Talk ) 13:48, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:39, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

If that's all you've found, you haven't even followed up on the information already there. And you can't spell StroboConn. Funfree (talk) 15:03, 1 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Please read my explanation more carefully about what you need to show notability. I've read all the sources, they are among the trivial mentions I said exist. And I can spell Stroboconn (lowercase 'C' in the source I linked), that was a typo. Dougweller (talk) 15:16, 1 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. I'm reluctant to give up on this character, but the lengthiest source I have found is in a thesis or dissertation, and is on his being largely responsible for starting the Eastern Illinois band. For the Stroboconn (which may merit an article, but for now I have created a redirect), I see him given joint credit for the idea behind it, and I find a patent issued to him and cited in several subsequent patents. He appears to have taught at Eastern Illinois, completed his doctorate at Chicago while there and eventually become head of the physics department, done military service in WWII and returned to his job, and I see him as a faculty member at Brevard in the mid-1960s. But I suspect some of the colleges named in the article as it stands are erroneous, and I am not finding enough coverage to establish a solid biography, let alone enough to satisfy the general notability guideline. And neither the work leading to the Stroboconn nor starting the band are sufficient to meet more specialized notability guidelines. Please ping me if more substantial coverage is found, and I will then edit the article for coherence, tone, and reference identification. I'd like this to be saved, but our notability requirements are either that the person be of obvious importance (e.g.: won a Nobel) or that there is substantial independent coverage, and I have to concur with the nominator, I can't find it. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:40, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - as not notable; Wikipedia is not a directory. TuckerResearch (talk) 20:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
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