Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerome Edwards

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:22, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jerome Edwards

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Fails WP:BASIC. Tuskegee Airman killed in a training accident who never deployed overseas. Sources are unreliable (CAF), passing mentions or relate to a mural memorializing him and his brother.

**Source assessment table:**
Source	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG?
https://cafriseabove.org/jerome-thompson-edwards/	The source is an unreliable User contribution site		✘ No
https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/community/2020/05/legacy-of-2-tuskegee-airmen-from-steubenville-honored/		passing mention only	✘ No
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-F-158edw?view=text		The article mentions the subject briefly, but does not offer much detail, more about his brother	✘ No
http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny15_rangel/CBRStatementTuskegeeBillSigned04112006.html		about the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to the Tuskegee Airmen in 2006, not about him	✘ No
https://sewickleycemetery.com/the-tuskegee-airmen-memorial/		listing on a memorial site	✘ No
Tuskegee Airmen an illustrated history		not actually mentioned	✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

Mztourist (talk) 10:21, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Mztourist (talk) 10:32, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Doesn't meet any recognizable criteria. Would not oppose a Merge to a list of Tuskegee Airmen. Intothat darkness 19:34, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Exactly how many of these Tuskegee Airmen bios are there? GoodDay (talk) 05:20, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

about 150. Mztourist (talk) 05:30, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is that about the average # of airmen bios, for all air groups? GoodDay (talk)

I really don't know, we don't usually have such large numbers of pages created for airmen from a specific group/background. This seems to be a very U.S. phenomenon, like pages being created for everyone who featured in Band of Brothers (miniseries). Some Users apparently believe that every Tuskegee Airman is notable Mztourist (talk) 05:47, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see. GoodDay (talk) 05:51, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete doesn't meet GNG, the collective Congressional Gold Medal doesn't meet the individual award expectation of ANYBIO. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:04, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment https://www.heraldstaronline.com/news/local-news/2019/09/tuskegee-airmen-mural-in-downtown-steubenville-takes-flight/ He's in a mural someone painted, but not much in that article written about him. “My grandma said he was so insistent on flying his own plane, he didn’t want anyone to test his plane,” Caroline Edwards said. “He wanted to test it himself. He took off and it malfunctioned." I guess he died before he could accomplish anything worth writing about. Dream Focus 18:42, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Tuskegee Airmen. Per Mztourist's analysis, there is not a lot of good sourcing in the article already; per my own newspaper archive searches, there is not a lot of good sourcing to be found and added. I did add one source; most of what I could find was about his unfortunate death. I must confess that this doesn't seem like too bad of an article, and I'm confused as why Tuskegee airmen are the locus of so much drama around here lately — but I can't really justify !voting to keep it. jp×g 20:29, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails GNG, in the currently used sources, and my WP:BEFORE is not turning up anything but passing mentions lacking SIGCOV. He was one four Tuskegee pilots to die in training accidents from May-June 1943, and "died in a training accident" is relatively tragic but undistinguished event, especially considering his entire military career was a few months or years of being in training. Aside from the street mural there doesn't seem to be much lasting or greater than usual interest in this person over other pilots. -Indy beetle (talk) 21:56, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:BASIC is not met as the available sourcing offers very little non-routine or in-depth coverage. Avilich (talk) 14:33, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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