Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/W. E. Whetstone


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The result was delete. Tone 20:43, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

W. E. Whetstone

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Fails WP:GNG and his position doesn't meet WP:NPOL. A search didn't turn up any real sources that suggest notability. The sources used are: 1) an entry into "A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography"; 2) a college yearbook; 3) a book by the article's since-banned author; 4) an obituary for a completely different person; 5) a newspaper advertisement; 6) An unlinked local newspaper article; 7) Hathorn's same book; and 8) his son's obituary GPL93 (talk) 12:58, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep Notable as president of a state school board and inclusion in A Dictionary of Louisiana Biiography, published by the Louisiana Historical Assn.2605:6000:6415:EF00:D1F9:2B62:497B:7638 (talk) 19:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC) — 2605:6000:6415:EF00:D1F9:2B62:497B:7638 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Delete. Having a short blurb in a local historical association's self-published biographical dictionary is not an instant free pass over WP:GNG — it's not nothing, I grant, but it isn't all by itself enough. But none of the other referencing here is cutting it at all, as it consists entirely of his alma mater's yearbook, an advertisement he placed and paid for himself, other people's Findagrave entries, a glancing namecheck of his existence in an article about somebody else, and two citations to single page namechecks in a book that has this article's creator as its author and thus falls afoul of our rule against self-citing your own work. His role with the Louisiana State Board of Education could get him an article if it were referenced properly, but is not an instant inclusion freebie that entitles him to be sourced like this. And SPAs who immediately jump into AFD discussions as their first-ever Wikipedia contributions are rarely convincing — 2605, you're one piece of thin ice away from being duck-blocked as a probable sockpuppet of a banned user. Bearcat (talk) 00:04, 26 February 2019 (UTC)


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