Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John J. Grady

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. If anyone would like to work on it in their namespace I would be happy to userfy it. J04n(talk page) 20:45, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

John J. Grady

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I couldn't establish that this meets WP:BIO or WP:GNG Boleyn (talk) 08:00, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

delete fails WP:BIO. Google books comes up with a namesake that did something in 1886. LibStar (talk) 11:56, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —UY Scuti ^Talk 17:18, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment this is not an isolated WP event. User:CD972 created a number of articles for people from January to March, 2009, seemingly based on the existence of their papers at the Eisenhower presidential library. Among these are: Karl G. Harr, Jr., *Edward Hazlett, *Rowland R. Hughes, *Leland Hobbs, *Paul A. Hodgson, Edwin B. Howard, *John Wesley Hanes III, *Katherine G. Howard, *Gabriel Hauge, *Harvey V. Higley, *Laurence J. Hansen, Sam R. Heller,Julius C. Holmes, Henry W. Hoagland, Ben Hibbs, Laurin L. Henry, Robert Cunningham Humphreys, Wayne J. Hood, Mattie Pinnette, Carl McCardle, Henry R. McPhee, Jr., L. Arthur Minnich, Robert E. Merriam, I. Jack Martin, *Edward A. McCabe, Charles F. Masterson, John A. Moaney, Christian O. Musser, *Fred M. Manning, *Malcolm A. MacIntyre, Robert J. McDuff, Gerald D. Morgan, Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr., *William M. Rountree, Maxwell M. Rabb, Ann C. Whitman, Clyde A. Wheeler, *John E. Wilkes, *C. Langhorne Washburn, Samuel C. Waugh, Charles F. Willis , William Merrill Whitman, John Stewart Bragdon, Charles L. Brainard , *Ruth M. Briggs, Harold R. Bull, Edward A. Bacon, *Harry C. Butcher, *Robert P. Burroughs -- and there are some more from December 2008. Some meet GNG, others do not. (Note: I have added an asterisk before the names that have some modicum of referencing -- I included in that ones with few references but a major newspaper obit. The remainder usually have only one reference, generally a single government document that is probably a directory. I have tagged all others with either "oneref" or "refimprove".) Most are deceased, but death dates aren't always present. What I don't recall is what the policy is regarding articles created before the current policies regarding notability and sourcing -- are they automatically grandfathered in, or should we be applying current sourcing requirements? If the latter, many of these should be deleted. What is the best approach for a block of articles like this? LaMona (talk) 22:51, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

With a little more checking, some of these appear to have text copied directly from the finding aids produced by the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Those finding aids are probably in the public domain (".gov"), but it's still a copy-paste, with only one reference, the finding aid. LaMona (talk) 23:09, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 10:21, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for now at best and draft & userfy instead as the material is imaginably an article but this is still questionable. SwisterTwister talk 20:53, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:38, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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