Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas J. Bray
His entire life is summarized in numerous encyclopedic entries (e.g. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015078229138?urlappend=%3Bseq=768 ''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'', '' History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley'', various ''Who's Who'' and ''https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinameri01peri/mode/2up Who Was Who'' compilations), and although secondary sources are preferred, neither  nor  ''forbids'' the usage of tertiary sources (which often help structure biographies and facilitate the location of secondary sources). Additional coverage exists in trade industry publications: e.g. a https://archive.org/details/sim_chiltons-iron-age_1928-04-19_121_16/page/n63/mode/2up?q=%22Thomas+J+Bray%22 biography and https://archive.org/details/sim_chiltons-iron-age_1933-12-14_132_24/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22Thomas+J+Bray%22  obituary, in ''The Iron Age'', and https://archive.org/details/sim_hardware-age-home-improvement-market_1933-12-21_132_13/page/30/mode/2up?q=%22Thomas+J+Bray%22 short obit in ''Hardware Age''. Newspapers and journal articles throughout his career provide non-trivial coverage: "|Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material." (Note: his father and son had the same name, so care should be warranted to avoid |building a Frankenstein
— User:Animalparty, 01:29, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:TERTIARY||WP:SIGCOV||WP:FRANKIE (Wikipedia:Notability)