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The result was delete. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 16:54, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First african american police officer in winter park[edit]

Contested prod. Article about the hiring of the first black policeman in a specific force. The article, however, concentrates on the civil rights movement that led to this being a "first". There are numerous notable firsts for African Americans. This is not one of them. Delete. Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 18:24, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete An essay about the first African American policeman in one small community. Not notable. Either a homework essay or a plain copyvio of a local newspaper. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 18:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to whichever Winter Park this is--Florida? Unless it's a copyvio, in which case, nuke it. Jclemens (talk) 19:22, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. If merging any information first, however unpalatable the term is, please remember that the term in the era for "African American" was the word we now consider pejorative: "negro". An encyclopaedic article does not reflect the linguistic niceties of the present day, it reflects the realities of the time it writes about. Even if those realities are perceived as unpleasant it is facts that we record here. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 19:56, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Almost every force is going to have a first African American copper at some point in history. But unless they did something more than that, they shouldn't get an article. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:51, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, definitely not notable: some of the sources are interviews! If we can get access to a source, it would be useful to add some of this to the Winter Park article (again, assuming that we can discover which Winter Park this is), but no need for a separate article. Nyttend (talk) 21:31, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Notability not established. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:10, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A first-time contribution from a new editor who isn't used to the Wikipedia rules yet. Although it's a pretty good item that is lists its sources, and Buddy Lewis's experience as the first cop in a segregated Southern town would make a good newspaper article, it can't stay on Wikipedia. This site has rules about what one has to do to be notable, and one of those is to show that there has been coverage from sources outside the local area. I'll do a wire service search to see if the 1952 story got picked up by AP or UPI, but if not, it's a story that will have to be posted somewhere besides Wikipedia. While that may seem harsh, the rules are in place because there have to be limits on how many people have their own articles in an online encyclopedia; or else, almost everyone's story would be posted here. All I can say is, don't let this discourage you from writing articles about persons who may have been notable in the 1940s, but who have been forgotten now. Mandsford (talk) 02:13, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 06:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Full of Fail. JBsupreme (talk) 06:23, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment In doing a search, it turns out that Mr. Lewis wasn't the first African-American policeman even in Winter Park [1] (this may or may not link up); an AP story of May 17, 1926, reported a "Negro policeman" from Winter Park being charged by a police chief in Bartow for carrying a gun in an area outside of his jurisdiction. Mandsford (talk) 13:36, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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