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Keep as subject is the focus of sufficient reliable third-party coverage to cross the verifiability and notability thresholds for
WP:GNG. Notability is not a competition. -
Dravecky (
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18:53, 24 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete Looks like a whole swamp of unverified material in associated articles as well. The Shreveport Times obituary, claimed to have been successfully retrieved just a few days ago, seems to have been giving a 404 since at least July 2011 according to the Internet Archive.
Samsara14:29, 27 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete, with regret. The article, which I first presumed to be a memorial created by someone close to Mr. Maple, is in fact one of a remarkable series of biographical article created over many years by
User:Billy Hathorn. I readily see why this was created by Hathorn , who, I assume, stumbled upon Maple while writing articles about newspapers, editors and publishers in the region. I assume that the details of Maples life as presented here are accurate and verified. However, the article fails to pass
WP:GNG. Maple was an editor for a series of small papers, but not ever an editor-in-chief and never worked on a major paper. Other positions were things like running a small town chamber of commerce. Crucially, he attracted no coverage in third part reliable sources at all. It is not even clear whether the obit was editorial, or produced by the family. Like
Jimmy Stewart in
It's a Wonderful Life, Maple appears to have led a worthy life, of interest to only his own circle of loved ones.
E.M.Gregory (
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11:37, 6 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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