Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baxter Leach

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Activist who only appears to have garnered media attention in relation to one event. All coverage is in relation to his participation in the Memphis sanitation strike. Maybe merge relevant info into the article about the strike itself? GPL93 (talk) 21:08, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

:Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. GPL93 (talk) 21:08, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

:Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. GPL93 (talk) 21:08, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

• Fails notability guidelines.Ppt1973 (talk) 16:02, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
• Though the "I Am a Man" march was a single event, there were numerous actions around strikes that went on for a number of months. The notability of Baxter Leach and the other participants has only recently been acknowledged. They have been honored numerous times, and none of them are discussed on the main page about the strike. Sepideh (talk) 21:19, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
• Wikipedia is not a memorial for "honouring" people. It is an encyclopaedia, and to support having a biographical encyclopaedia article a person's life and works, the contents of a biographical article, must have been properly documented in depth by independent people with known good reputations for fact checking and accuracy. That is the argument that holds water at AFD. Uncle G (talk) 07:53, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
• What also holds water, Uncle, is a bucket made of a dozen sources that cover the news of his death... [https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/09/07/hundreds-bid-farewell-memphis-sanitation-worker-baxter-leach/], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/baxter-leach-key-member-of-memphis-striking-sanitation-workers-dies-at-79/2019/08/29/a2fdc44c-caa7-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html] (and this isn't some local paper also called Washington Post), [https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/breaking/2019/08/27/baxter-leach-1968-sanitation-work-striker-has-died/2132743001/], [https://wreg.com/2019/08/27/baxter-leach-1968-sanitation-striker-dies-at-79/], [https://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/notable-1968-memphis-sanitation-worker-baxter-leach-dies-from-blood-cancer/979885408], [https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-baxter-leach-obit-20190829-jxpr2nfjw5emhd7q4o23xeaboi-story.html]. Drmies (talk) 14:09, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
• Merge and delete. It is not like he lead a movement.Knox490 (talk) 23:54, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
• {{harvnb|Taylor|Lowe|2018}}, already cited in the article, is one source that covers this person's background and later life in detail. I favour multiple. Checking out the others in the hope of finding a second, I find that some sources here do not support the biographical content that they purport to support, but which is verifiable from {{harvnb|Taylor|Lowe|2018}} at least. So there's still just the one source for a proper biographical article, from what is currently in the article at any rate. Uncle G (talk) 07:53, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

• Selective Merge to Memphis sanitation strike. Keeping in mind WP:UNDUE, only the most significant (and source-verified) facts should be merged. Leave a redirect, and no reason to delete the history. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:19, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

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