Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. W. Cooper
As there appears to be some confusion, I will expand on my above nomination for deletion statement. The subject of the article does not appear to meet the standards for |encyclopedic notability contained in the |General Notability Guidelines and more specifically the |notability criteria for biographies. The sources are almost entirely primary and thus do not lend themselves to establishing notability for the subject. There is little in the form of coverage from secondary or tertiary sources and certainly not enough to meet the standard of in depth coverage from |reliable secondary sources. In short there is nothing exceptional about this person. He was a businessman, one of many tens of thousands, who engaged in the normal things that business people do. Although not a fatal issue, I also note that the article has an |essayish tone to it. Most of these issues have been raised previously in the original PROD that was taken down in January in the hopes the article would be improved. I also attached maintenance tags which have been removed without evident correction of the problems cited. While there are many issues with articles that can be |fixed, notability is not usually one of them. It's either there or it isn't. A Google has yielded nothing that rings the notability bell for this individual. I am happily prepared to reconsider the nomination if some evidence of notability is offered. But after nine months I see no reason to sit on this any longer. For now I !vote to '''Delete''' as the nom
— User:Ad, 15:18, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:GNG||WP:BIO||WP:RS||WP:ESSAY||WP:SOFIXIT (Wikipedia:Notability)