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 delete. —  JJMC89 ( T· C) 01:02, 10 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Roy O. Martin Jr.

Roy O. Martin Jr. (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log · Stats)

(Find sources:  Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

It's a great resume but not one that really asserts notability. He had a successful family business, but not a notable one, and the only source of substance in this WP:REFBOMB is a family-written obituary. Reywas92 ^Talk 06:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 06:40, 2 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 06:40, 2 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 06:41, 2 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 06:41, 2 April 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete this article was deleted in 2007 and still doesn't pass notability standards now. I tried to speedy delete it but my request was turned down. Best, GPL93 ( talk) 12:37, 2 April 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable for the purposes of guaranteeing his inclusion in Wikipedia, but the referencing is not getting him over WP:GNG at all — in classic Billy Hathorn fashion, it stakes his notability entirely on the existence of a paid-inclusion legacy.com obituary (which is not a notability criterion, because everybody always gets one of those if their own family or friends place it) and then references everything else to primary sources, glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things, and purely tangential verification of stray facts about his family that have nothing to do with whether he's notable enough for inclusion or not. The existence of a book about him and his company might seem like a start toward making him notable enough for inclusion, but (a) it's being cited only to metaverify its own existence rather than actually being used to support any of the content about Martin, and (b) Claitor's is a local publishing house that just publishes the book-form editions of government documents and local family genealogies, not a publisher of conventional fiction or non-fiction books — even the book's own Amazon sales profile plainly reveals that it's a Martin family genealogy, not a notability-making book about him. Bearcat ( talk) 17:04, 4 April 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete: Not notable person. Notability is not inherited from the legacy of the father so this is an invalid bio especially since Wikipedia is not a vehicle for genealogy. The company is covered in the Oakdale, Louisiana article and the subject has notable mention in the Alexandria, Louisiana article. Otr500 ( talk) 12:11, 8 April 2019 (UTC) reply

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.