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Joseph P. Buckley

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Fails WP:BIO. All I could find is a Temple Law Review bio. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:58, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Law, Police, and Illinois. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:19, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Killing of Ryan Hinton and Larry Henderson

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Run of the mill news story, and I don't see anything on them from before that. This is a WP:NOTNEWS and WP:BLP1E problem, and fails WP:GNG as well. Sophisticatedevening🍷^(talk) 01:42, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Events, Police, and Ohio. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:18, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the person who created Killing of Ryan Hinton and Larry Henderson.

What's going to happen with this article is the exact same thing that happened with a different article that I created, and which was also nominated for deletion.

I recently created Rochester, Minnesota racial slur video, and it was nominated for deletion, for the same reason as this one. But soon afterward, a bunch of other people added a whole bunch of content, and the deletion nomination was withdrawn.

The exact same thing will happen with this article.

Give it a week. It if turns out that I'm wrong, then I'll admit that I was wrong, and I'll be OK with deleting it.

R5Y93mdf (talk) 05:33, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect - Redirect with history to Cincinnati Police Department. --Jax 0677 (talk) 11:42, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete it's not mentioned at the Cincinnati article. If you want to merge it there that is another thing, and would be fine. BLP1E doesn't apply because this isn't a biography though. PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into the police department article. Right now it's on the border of just news and part of a pattern. Bearian (talk) 21:28, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - nominator fails to articulate how this is a WP:NOTNEWS and WP:BLP1E problem, and fails WP:GNG. Kire1975 (talk) 00:07, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Godfrey

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Everything is related to his claims of once seeing a UFO. A standard WP:BEFORE fails to find any other point of notability. Fails WP:BLP1E. Chetsford (talk) 01:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, this should have been speedily deleted. For transparency and to avoid bookkeeping chaos, I'll defer to someone else to close this. Sorry. Chetsford (talk) 01:02, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Paranormal, Police, and England. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:11, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Plenty of unused sources available to support notability, including [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. It just needs a {{more citations needed}} template at top, per WP:ATD. I'd say it passes WP:BLP1E. 5Q5|^✉ 12:56, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is Sky History (the first linked source) the same as the History Channel? If so It might not be reliable, as explained at WP:RSPHISTORY. Bonus Person (talk) 13:44, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unclear how it passes BLP1E if every piece of the scattered coverage relates to his supposed abduction? Indeed, this was the point raised by User:Grim23 and User:LuckyLouie in the first AfD (which closed as delete and which this article seems to be a carbon copy recreation of). Chetsford (talk) 08:50, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 04:55, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as per comments of 5Q5 Servite et contribuere (talk) 08:33, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. WP:BLP1E applies. Everything is about that one event. Stifle (talk) 08:24, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – robertsky (talk) 09:08, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]