Joseph Cloud
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Biography of a person not
properly referenced as passing inclusion criteria. The attempted notability claim here, "melter and refiner at the U.S. Mint", could get him an article if he were well-sourced as passing
WP:GNG on coverage about his work, but is not "inherently" notable enough to guarantee him an article without proper sourcing for it -- but the only two footnotes here are a
primary source directory entry that isn't support for notability at all and one page of a book about the history of the county where he lived, which is being cited in such a way that it's deeply unclear whether it even refers to Joseph Cloud at all, or merely to an ancestor of his — but even if it does mention Joseph Cloud himself, being namechecked on one page of a book about something else wouldn't be enough all by itself.
I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with much better access to archived American media coverage and/or history books than I've got can salvage it with better sources than I've been able to find, but nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be referenced better than this.
Bearcat (
talk) 13:46, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 13:46, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:06, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 21:33, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete: Some mentions in journals from the 1800's [1] and [2] (apparently), but these are tertiary sources, so I can't vouch for the validity of each statement. I can't find anything about this person. Oaktree b ( talk) 22:59, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete: Doesn't appear to be notable, and is badly sourced. — Mjks28 ( talk) 21:58, 25 June 2024 (UTC)