Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvey L. Bass (2nd nomination)
No consensus in the first AfD, so trying again.  This article is sourced only by the subject's family-provided obituary in the local newspaper.  ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' obituaries do not indicate notability, since anyone can have one; they don't indicate anyone other than the family found the subject to be notable.  And they also are not reliably fact-checked.  So they clearly are not .  Aside from that, this article has no other sources to verify its info about this man.  Neither other listed "reference" in the article mentions the man in any way.  Even if everything in the article is assumed to be correct, is the man notable?  Well, two of the "keep" arguments in the previous debate were .  So if an editor is convinced by , then I guess they can decided that yes, he's notable on that basis.  Aside from that, though, there is nothing in the article that meets .  Other "keep" votes in the first debate said he was notable "as a local individual".  But with no press coverage to go along with that, that seems to go very much against the standards of .  And even that aside, once again, the article offers no actual reliable sources for even such "local" notability.  Whatever local importance he may seem to have had (not that I agree that even that is very much), we apparently have to just take his family's word for it.  The author touts the subject having "won" a "major" Rotary award.  This is again unsourced (other than by his obituary), but this time it doesn't matter, because the Paul L. Harris Fellow is, in fact, no such thing.  Quoting from the http://www.rotary.org/foundation/development/recognition/paulharris.html Rotary International website: "Anyone who contributes &mdash; or in whose name is contributed &mdash; a gift of US$1,000 or more to the Annual Programs Fund may become a Paul Harris Fellow. . . . Donors are eligible for Paul Harris Fellow recognition when their cumulative giving reaches US$1,000."  The flowery language used by the author ("won the coveted Paul Harris Fellow designation for outstanding community service") isn't supported by the organization's own description of the designation.  There's no "winning" of the award and no "outstanding community service" necessary; just a check for $1000 will do
— User:Mwelch, 01:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:POKEMON||WP:POKEMON||WP:BIO||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)