Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert W. Edmondson


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The result was delete. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  12:40, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Robert W. Edmondson

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Non-notable leader of short-lived denomination. Note: all the references in the article were from sites associated with the denomination, none are WP:RS. Bistropha (talk) 22:14, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
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 * Comment This article is totally weird. Was the subject a Lutheran-Catholic or a Mormon? Is the obituary for a completely different person of the same name? Mccapra (talk) 06:14, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment The obituary seems to refer to the same person: a former military chaplain with degrees from the same institutions. NB: Some biographical claims made by or about Edmondson may not be verifiable from reliable sources. For example, a church site stated that he had been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, but his name does not appear in a 2020 list of past recipients.  Discrepancies about his personal history, and the statement in his obituary about Edmondson as a teller of tall tales, raise the question of whether some part of his ministerial career may have been an extended hoax. Bistropha (talk) 20:12, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The sourcing is not enough indepdent of the subject. The obituary does not look to be the type that is written by news journalist, but looks to be an independent submission by people who knew him, so it does not seem to add toward notability. It seems that Edmondson may have at some point left the Anglo-Catholic Lutheran Church that he was a part of and become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At least nothing in his obituary precludes that conclusion. I wonder though it the article on the Church he was at one point a part of is verrifiable. On the other hand the obituary never mentions having been any religion other than a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and there are LDS chaplains. Even if Edmondson was not a Latter-day Saint chaplain, the obituary never says he ever was a Lutheran, and so there is a possibility that this article is an example of building the Frankenstein's monster.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete We can’t keep a bio based on such thin and apparently contradictory sourcing. Mccapra (talk) 04:26, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


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