Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cortez Peters Sr.

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. Stifle (talk) 13:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cortez Peters Sr.[edit]

The article for Barbara Blackburn, the world typing record-holder according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was nominated for deletion due to notability concerns. I think the subject of this article is even less notable.

I am also nominating the following related page:

Larry V (talk | e-mail) 06:51, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. This is tricky, but there isn't a lot of coverage of either as a "world class typist", although Sr. was once called "King of the Keys". There is coverage of the defunct Cortez Peters Business College (or School), which had branches in Baltimore, Washington, and Chicago, and they were somewhat notable as being black-owned, though I can't verify the "first" claim (which seems unlikely). Both could be mentioned in an article on the school. --Dhartung | Talk 08:11, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Incidentally, I believe there are sufficient sources today for Barbara Blackburn to have her article back, if anyone wants to do the scut work. --Dhartung | Talk 08:16, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Plenty of coverage found by Google News, Google Books and Google Scholar. Please feel free to add those sources to the article. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I came to this page specifically because I needed to know about Cortez Peters. Why would we delete it? It is certainly relevant enough because his textbooks are basically all that are used in high school classrooms.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.107.93.12 (talk • contribs)

Neither article has any sources. Since they mention typing competitions (the notability of which itself is subject to debate), WP:NOT#NEWS seems the appropriate notability guideline. Delete both B.Wind (talk) 01:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.