Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Floyd H. Long

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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. WjBscribe 22:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Floyd H. Long

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Just being a member of the Long family is not, by itself, notability. Dhartung | Talk 05:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete, fails WP:BIO criteria. Terence 06:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete WP is not a memorial. The article ends "the family requested memorials to the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration, LSU, 3137-F, CEBA Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 The assumption must be that most of the record is taken from an obituary, DGG 23:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment and warning. In looking at some recent bios, still being put in by the ed., and the rate of one every two minutes, the principal source seems to be the eds. unpublished master's thesis: "Billy Hathorn, The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980, Master's thesis (1980), Northwestern State University at Natchitoches," which probably does not count as a published RS, . It also raises the question of whether these articles in WP are being put in wholesale by downloading them indiscriminately. In any case I want to remind the ed. that the fact that someone has an obit. or a listing in a book is not proof of notability per se; if they have done notable things, then the source documents it, but if they have not done notable things, no amount of sources saying so make for notability. DGG 03:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. See my comment in the discussion immediately above this one; the same applies here. The Long family ties does make this a bit closer call, admittedly. The sad thing is that Billy actually does a pretty good job of writing most of these, but that doesn't make the subjects any more notable. Realkyhick 03:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
He certainly does a complete job of writing them; do we have formal guidelines for the amount of detail in an article? We may need some, since common sense cannot be counted on. But what I suggest, is that he be urged to turn his master's thesis into a book. People will always want another book about the Longs, who are endlessly fascinating even when not notable, and I'm not sure that any published source has the amount of information on the less important members of the family. (not satire, meant as praise) DGG 05:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)DGG 22:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought that it would be good to show that not all Longs, indeed most Longs, went into politics. Floyd Long seemed to be the most notable of the non-politician Longs. I think he meets the notability requirements, or I would not have done this little article.

Billy Hathorn 23:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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