Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph R. Chenelly

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The result was delete. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 04:33, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph R. Chenelly

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Promotional articles on very minor figure. Tagged for A7, but it's been here for several years, and it does assert somer minor importance.

Notability would be either as a correspondent or a politician. As a politician is absurd--the height of his career is as a member of the local school board. As a politician her reported on a long series of military campaigns, , but the only thing of any possible significance is that he was the first one present at 2 or 3 separate events over the years. He's on a totally unofficial list of the best 100 military journalists by a NGO without an article on WP. There's no major award, just county man of the year from a political party committee. The sources are 95% his own articles, one or two local articles, and an Army paper.

The promotionalism is implicit in the wildly extensive detailed coverage of the most minor events, and the use of descriptions of the various events as filler. This is a tribute or commemoration, not an encyclopedia article. Even if written in a way proportional to the importance, there's still no real notability.

To anticipate an objection, we do have a good many other articles of this sort. It's time we removed them. DGG ( talk ) 21:06, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per DGG. A fine war correspondent, I'm sure, but a non-notable one. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 23:58, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. -- GreenC 15:21, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - the CNN and Los Angeles Times articles seem to bring him up to pass notability, if only barely. Much of its tone is so over-the-top that it makes it seem silly, but ordinary editing could fix that. Bearian (talk) 20:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:58, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Unless I see some editing, this may have to be deleted per WP:TNT. Bearian (talk) 17:38, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:06, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep: the tone's not great, but some of the available sources seem promising. Tezero (talk) 07:06, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Tend towards delete the CNN article isn't about him, the only mention of Cheneelly is "An article written by Sgt. Joseph R. Chenelly and posted on the Marines' Web ". Leaves only the LA Times to talk about Chenelly the person. GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:35, 8 April 2014 (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.