Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James McGee

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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 Keep. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-11 06:07Z

[edit] James McGee

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This article is entirely unreferenced; my efforts to find references have been unsuccessful. A lack of references renders it impossible to verify whether a recent edit is correct, or should be reverted, or, indeed, to determine whether any of the information in the article is actually true. Per Wikipedia:Verifiability, "If an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." John254 04:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. Edeans 08:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - I found and added a reference with small bio. Tikiwont 14:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Keep WP:BIO requires multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the personJeepday 14:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Change vote - two independent references have been added to the article . I verified the reference and changed the format to citation style. I also add a Fact tag to the trailing sentence, which does not adversely impact the article. While the article is still a stub and needs work it appears to currently met all three core content policies
  • Delete unless sourced and referenced i.a.w. WP:BIO by end of this AfD Alf photoman 15:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - More sources for this stub of a major of a large U.S. city might be provided by the contributors of the article, which they are more likely to do if notified of this AfD. As this has not been done yet, I've done so now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tikiwont (talk • contribs) 16:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC).
    • Comment I edited this article back in March - unfortunately I was new to Wikipedia and didn't cite anything. I have no general knowledge of the subject and I am certain I pulled any info I added from several newspaper articles that appeared in the Dayton Daily News after his death. I don't have access, but I think they are available on the newspaper's web archive (and likely on LexisNexis); article titles include "Former Mayor McGee dies" and "McGee changed city he dearly loved, served". In general, I don't think there's a lack of press coverage if someone was able to do the research - he was one of the first black mayors of a city as large as Dayton and was quite active with the NAACP - but due to the timeframe of McGee's service I doubt much will be available on the web. -Big Smooth 16:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - the guy is prominent enough (first African-American mayor and longest serving mayor of a large city) to warrant an article. Any unsourced information should be marked for cites needed. Acsenray 18:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I was surprised to read that Dayton only has a population of about 150k, but the greater Dayton area is close to 900k. So how notable is the mayor of a 150k city? But since he was the first black mayor this seems more significant if the sources are available. --Kevin Murray 05:51, 6 February 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.