Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bradford C. Freeman

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The result was merge to E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States). czar 20:10, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bradford C. Freeman

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Freeman was a soldier in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was assigned to E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States). However, he never acquired sufficient rank or received sufficient awards to qualify for WP:SOLDIER. His only claim to fame is his assignment to E Company; that falls under WP:INHERITED. Freeman happens to be reported to be the last person assigned to E Company to die. Dying does not make one famous; Freeman fails WP:NOTABILITY. Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 19:55, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military and Mississippi. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:24, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete the Band of Brothers (miniseries) effect here. He personally did nothing notable, but then Ambrose wrote his book, they made the miniseries and suddenly it was like Easy Company won WWII. The repeated stories that have followed mean that every minor member of Easy Company has some coverage. All the sources provided just cover his death and that he was the last surviving member of Easy Company. It can be argued that amounts to SIGCOV satisfying WP:BASIC but I can't support this position that has developed that a few news reports of some old person dying establishes notability that they never had while alive. Mztourist (talk) 03:03, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
(Weak) Merge to E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States) based on how the coverage is limited to him being the last member alive. All told, this appears to be an edge case, but personally it has a certain je ne sais quoi which makes a dedicated article not feel quite proper. If I were to motivate this by policy, I guess the argument goes something along the lines of "being/dying as the last member of Easy Company seems like WP:BIO1E, and the coverage as a living member of Easy Company doesn't appear to rise to level of independent notability". But that's post hoc rationalization on my part. Ljleppan (talk) 07:07, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Merge as proposed above. No notable decorations and nothing aside from being a member of a unit someone wrote about and dying last. I'm sure others will quibble, but I'm not a fan of the 'last surviving/dying' thing counting as notability. Intothat darkness 13:03, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(Weak) Merge to E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States) as there appears to be no real independent notability. Slatersteven (talk) 14:02, 22 July 2022 (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.