Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corwin Samuel West

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The result was delete. Biblioworm 19:35, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Corwin Samuel West

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Article does not cite any sources, so it seems that this guy is not notable. Therefore, the article failes WP:BIO. A search for more sources turned up nothing. Delta13C (talk) 19:20, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Unsourced BLP. Meatsgains (talk) 21:31, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. He died in 2004, so it's not a BLP. His Deseret News obituary is online, but doesn't seem to be a news obituary of the sort that might support notability. [1] I couldn't find any independent substantial sources about him. The text of the article relates an interesting story that might be understood to make a claim that he was a notable advocate of alternative medicine, but I didn't find any substantial sources to support this. --Arxiloxos (talk) 23:39, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This individual seems to have gone by his middle name Samuel. He is often referred to as C. Samuel West. This is a link to the website of an organization he founded [2], which lists him as C. Samuel West. Not really an indepedent source, but the start of something. I have to admit that I have to wonder about an article that name drops about people who spoke at a graduation ceremony where the person received a degree. That seems like reaching for links to something to make him notable that do not have any real meaning. If someone graduated from the University of Notre Dame the year President Obama spoke at the graduation, even if they were recieving a doctorate, we would not mention it at all in the article on that person.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The sources I did come across seem to indicate that West was an advocate of alternative medicine that would be counted as a fringe theory. They tend towards the weak and disparate, and do not seem to meet the requirements we have for sourcing of articles on fringe theorists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:53, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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