Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/W. E. Whetstone
Having a short blurb in a local historical association's self-published biographical dictionary is not an instant free pass over  — it's not nothing, I grant, but it isn't all by itself ''enough''. But none of the other referencing here is cutting it ''at all'', as it consists entirely of his alma mater's yearbook, an advertisement he placed and paid for himself, other people's Findagrave entries, a glancing namecheck of his existence in an article about somebody else, and two citations to single page namechecks in a book that has this article's creator as its ''author'' and thus falls afoul of our rule against |self-citing your own work. His role with the Louisiana State Board of Education could get him an article if it were referenced ''properly'', but is not an instant inclusion freebie that entitles him to be sourced like ''this''. And SPAs who immediately jump into AFD discussions as their first-''ever'' Wikipedia contributions are rarely convincing — 2605, you're one piece of thin ice away from being |duck-blocked as a probable sockpuppet of a banned user
— User:Bearcat, 00:04, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:SELFCITE||WP:DUCK (Wikipedia:Notability)