Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milburn E. Calhoun

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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:25, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Milburn E. Calhoun[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG. The only sources used are obituaries. Also note he ran the Pelican Publishing Company, which is not Pelican books. GPL93 (talk) 20:58, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:01, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge selectively to Pelican Publishing Company. His purchase and running of the publisher attracted some non-regional coverage in the 1970's (Publisher's Weekly and West Coast Review of Books). 24.151.50.175 (talk) 16:52, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete - The paragraph, "Background" is an very close paraphrase of the Monroe News-Star obituary[1] - close enough that I would suggest this version of the article be deleted. I am not sure that the subject is encyclopedic, but I suspect his is. Newspapers.com shows his purchase of Pelican Publishing and his death to have been fairly widely covered in Louisiana and Mississippi. There are articles about Bayou Books, Calhoun Publishing Company, Pelican Publishing, and his role in each. There are also articles about his philanthropy, which while entirely(?) focused on Monroe area charities, did include a $1 million endowed chair in the names of his parents at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Smmurphy^(Talk) 20:22, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge selectively to Pelican Publishing Company. I do not think he is notable apart from his company. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:07, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:OUTCOMES - we almost always delete bios of music publishers and producers, absent other notability, as being too common. Bearian (talk) 17:38, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Worth a relist to consider the merge/delete dispute
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 22:48, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: fails WP:BASIC; nothing worth merging as the target article would not be improved by this content. --K.e.coffman (talk) 02:12, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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