Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cleone Hodges

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The result was Delete. Randykitty (talk) 11:08, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cleone Hodges[edit]

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Non-notable DavidSSabb (talk) 15:01, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:46, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:46, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. There are eleven other Appalachian State University faculty with Wikipedia biographies. Mrs. Hodges's story is comparable to the others but different in its own way. There are some twelve links with her article to other articles. She was a college basketball player and senior golfer as well as educator and secretary to the parks commission in Boone, N.C. She set many golfing records in her category and played until she was ninety-three. Besides her obituaries, there are two newspaper articles independent of her as well as a statement about her career read on the floor of the U.S. House by Representative Virginia Foxx. She was also a descendant of a political family from Louisiana. Billy Hathorn (talk) 21:57, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Although she sounds like an interesting person to have known, I can see nothing here that would be considered notable outside of her community of friends and neighbors. She does not qualify for academic notability, nor for sports notability. The entire article was written by Billy Hathorn, who (understandably) is voting "keep" but who, IMO, does not understand the role of Wikipedia. Billy, this is well-researched and finely written, but WP is not the proper venue for your work. I do hope you find or create such a venue. Note that there is a new wiki service called "Local Wiki" where you can create a wiki for whatever locality or level of locality you would like - town, city, county... Your articles would be great in a resource like that. It is, however, new-ish so you'd be kind of pioneering (e.g. there isn't a huge community to answer questions, etc.). Best of luck. LaMona (talk) 22:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The article is filled with minor incidents and local media coverage but presents nothing that could be used to show a pass of WP:PROF, WP:GNG, or any other notability criterion. And although living to 103 is quite an accomplishment, it's again not particularly notable. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:50, 1 October 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, slakr^\ talk / 06:02, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete basically because of NOTMEMORIAL. I checked the other articles in the category of Appalachian State faculty--almost all have more substantial accomplishments (I nominated 1 for afd). ~
Keep if she were an athlete with this level of sourcing, this would be a featured article.Jacona (talk) 20:34, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- She was an athlete, at LSU, and as a golfer in her later years, she made a hone-in-one past the age of ninety. There are featured stories about her prior to her death. Billy Hathorn (talk) 14:36, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete — as others have mentioned, fails WP:NOTMEMORIAL, WP:GNG, and even WP:PROF. Sources cited are either obits of her death or her coverage in them is incidental to something else. --slakr^\ talk / 10:11, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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