Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Terrell Graves


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The result was   speedy delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:00, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

William Terrell Graves

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I am pretty sure it is a hoax. I am unable to find any verification at all and given that the article claims he has 1.3 billion dollars and was the president of a major corporation such verification should not be that hard to find. Icewedge (talk) 07:05, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - looks like a hoax to me. Óðinn (talk) 07:26, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think this is a hoax.  A Google search for william graves torchmark (he apparently worked for the Torchmark corp.) turned up a couple of references  to a William T. Graves as an executive vice president of Torchmark.  But those two references are not necessarily reliable, and by themselves do not establish notability for Mr. Graves.  It is also interesting that the Torchmark article does not mention him.  My delete !vote is based wholly on the notability/verifiability problem.  Linguist At Large  07:32, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per A7 - no claim of significance, only a brief biography. Not notable, fails WP:BIO. Luinfana (talk) 07:35, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Not a hoax. A 1994 report by Torchmark to SEC lists him as vice-president, there's plenty of occurences in NYSE filing. University of Michigan lists an actuary named William T. Graves . NVO (talk) 08:35, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Probably not a hoax, but still fails to satisfy notability criteria and suffers from a lack of sources.  Graymornings (talk) 08:53, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 09:01, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


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