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The result was Keep. Foxy Loxy ^Pounce! 22:45, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Henry Corey

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I do not see how Corey meets WP:BIO. Enigma ^message 05:52, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete He has done a few notable things in his time (principal of this school, for instance), but overall he just wasn't a notable enough figure in society to be included. Master&Expert (Talk) 06:40, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, since he wasn't a notable enough figure in society anyway we don't need to bother looking for "significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject." Juzhong (talk) 06:50, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —John Z (talk) 10:25, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete as WP:COPYVIO of famousamericans.net/charleshenrycorey/ (can't post it as a link because of a filter of some sort). Nomoskedasticity (talk) 10:31, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep (modulo taking care of copyvio problem, which may necessitate speedy) College president, nyt obituary [1]. "Significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject" is always enough for a keep, as it is the general notability guideline, by the way.John Z (talk) 10:34, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No time to check, but I note the article creator's initial edit summary claims the source site is public domain. Plenty at gbooks btw.John Z (talk) 10:57, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably the NYT obit is public domain by now. Juzhong (talk) 18:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per John Z's argument.Dr. Locarno (talk) 10:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
keep NYT obit is always enough for notability. The argument that he was so obviously unnotable that it isnt even worth looking for sources shows a lack of understanding of WP:N and V. & perhaps a lack of understanding of the significance of his school and others like it--it needs an article, though it might have one already under a variant name. DGG (talk) 17:51, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you aiming that comment at anyone in particular, DGG? It's subjective to say someone has a "...lack of understanding..." seeing as there are different ways of understanding things :-) Scarian ^{Call me Pat!} 18:50, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect he aimed that comment at Juzhong. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Notablity is asserted and John Z shows independant sources exist. Edward321 (talk) 02:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~~Comment~~Keep. Not college president. President of the Board of Trustees of the Market Square Presbyterian Church, according to obituary.--Eric Yurken (talk) 12:59, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corey's obit, which supports the article info, is further down the page, which has several obits. The Market Square stuff is about Charles L. Bailey.John Z (talk) 15:11, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks John Z. Mets acad./notab. criterion #6 (highest-level elected or appointed academic post at an academic institution). Changed from comment to keep.--Eric Yurken (talk) 17:41, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

keep looks good to me, would like to see better contnet...--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:34, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
comment since it is clear that this article is going to be kept, at what point do we deal with the fact that it is copied from a copyrighted website? (famousamericans.net) I understand most people here want an article on this guy (and I concede he is notable) -- but unless someone is going to rewrite it in short order, I will be tempted to place a db-copyvio tag on it. It's fine to say that he is notable, but our judgment on that issue is, I think, trumped by Wikipedia's policy prohibiting copyright violations, and I think that means the article has to go (again, unless someone is willing to rewrite it). Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. famousamericans.net/charleshenrycorey/ says that this came from Appletons Encyclopedia, which is public domain. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:35, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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