Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Wiggins

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. Cbrown1023 talk 00:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Henry Wiggins

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Individual does not appear to be notable. Mwelch 08:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. No notability per WP:BIO. Mwelch 08:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete the article is an obituary apparently copied over to wikipedia. He was clearly not outstanding or commented on in his Army or academic careers. Seems to fail the notability requirements of WP:BIO - Peripitus (Talk) 10:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. Wikipedia is not a memorial. --Mus Musculus 16:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Consider keeping. 7 medals from two wars, Army major, Ph.D. from Syracuse, prominent in African-American community, head of university department. Is there no policy on Bronze Star and DFC winners? He had three Bronze stars. But if Preston Dunn does not qualify, I don't think Dr. Wiggins would either.

```` —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Billy Hathorn (talk • contribs) 21:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

• Comment. No, there is currently nothing written into the guidelines for military medal winners. If you think such a policy would be a good idea, might I suggest you bring it up on the the talk page of WP:BIO and see if there is a consensus among editors which would agree with you? That would be a bit more community-friendly way to go about this, than to just keep churning out these articles in defiance of current Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Please note that if you search the archives of that discussion page, you will see that the issue of military medal winners has been discussed before and the general feeling is that while something like the Medal of Honor would definitely qualify, lesser medals like Bronze Star would not. However, I don't think there has been any extensive debate on the issue. So if you would care to make a case for why something like the Bronze Star should be reconsidered with regard to notability, the talk page of WP:BIO would probably be a more effective place to do that than just bringing it up in individual AFD article debates. Mwelch 22:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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.