Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conley family

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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. Drmies (talk) 05:12, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conley family

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Genealogical cruft. This is a mess of original research. Cobbled together from unconnected parts with not overarching coverage of this extended family. Being used as a platform to profile the random accomplishments of non notable individuals. duffbeerforme (talk) 07:23, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Lakun.patra (talk) 08:41, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like quite and interesting and heavily researched family history project - but I'm not seeing any of the individuals mentioned as particularly notable nor that the family is in-and-of-itself particularly notable. So I'm going to have to put it as delete and hope that it moves somewhere more appropriate - maybe a local history museum website? JMWt (talk) 10:40, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. not a suitable encyclopedia article. DGG ( talk ) 18:28, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Seems to be a WP:COATRACK for bios of non-notable people. Is any individual there notable enough for a standalone article? Wikipedia sometimes has family articles, but they're to tie together the articles of individually notable people. Also, 15 SPAs for this article alone indicate a big WP:COI and WP:SPA problem. John Nagle (talk) 04:00, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hoax? One wonders how much of this is true. Mostly real with touches of hoax, or the other way around. Include as part of this family is Vernon Baker, included here on the basis that "Baker's first wife was Helen Stewart Baker, a member of the Conley Family of Alabama" [1]. That info was put into Baker's page by SPA socks connected to this mess. Prior it said his first wife was Leola Baker. The New York Times says "his first wife, Fern"? What's true? duffbeerforme (talk) 13:00, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good spot. I've seen several refs which say he had 3 wives, some only two, but all seem to say that his first wife was called Fern. I can't see anything suggesting Helen Stewart was married to him, other than those which use wikipedia as a source! JMWt (talk) 14:45, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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