Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Blazzard

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 11:03, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Howard Blazzard[edit]

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Fails WP:BASIC. Page has been tagged for more refs since August but none have been added. The only ref and a BEFORE search shows that he was quoted by Ernest Hemingway describing an action against the Siegfried Line in WWII and that is repeated in various books about Hemingway, but I don't regard that as sufficient to establish notability, otherwise there's not much available about him. His unreferenced post as Assistant Secretary of State of Arizona doesn't meet WP:NPOL and even if it did that is just a presumption and he still fails due to lack of reliable sources Mztourist (talk) 08:11, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Mztourist (talk) 08:12, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Single source to a heritage association website fails to demonstrate significant coverage by independent reliable sources. There's a 1970s biography of "James Blazzard and Mary Catherine Jolley", who I think are his parents, by Catherine B. Curtis. According to non-reliable sources (i.e. a genealogy website) Catherine is their daughter (i.e. Howard's sister), making her non-independent. Other sources I could find from Google Books seem to describe him only in relation to a relatively non-notable action that Hemingway witnessed, or are otherwise passing mentions. -Ljleppan (talk) 09:38, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Colonel with an impressive string of decorations, including a second-level and two third-level gallantry decorations. I think he meets WP:ANYBIO #1. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:36, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

One DSC and those low-tier decorations don't by any stretch satisfy #1 of ANYBIO. You know that would only apply if he had received the MoH, VC etc. Mztourist (talk) 15:20, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you think a third-level decoration is "low-tier" then you know nothing about military decorations! Lower than that would be, but not third-level. Three high-level decorations are, I think, enough to satisfy ANYBIO. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:21, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I know enough about military decorations to know that a DSC and lesser medals don't satisfy #1 of ANYBIO, whatever your personal criteria may be. Mztourist (talk) 03:25, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete While the purported decoration list is interesting, almost none of them are properly cited. His rank is in no way notable, and he doesn't seem to have held any military positions that would convey notability. Seems like a single event to me. Intothat darkness 14:27, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. The subject does not appear to even have met the now-depreciated WP:NSOLDIER criteria. Best, GPL93 (talk) 15:06, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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