User talk:Parkberry

Hello, Parkberry, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Parkberry, good luck, and have fun. PamD 15:53, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

PamD 15:53, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Gustavus A. Smith

Thank you for creating this article, but it leaves me wondering "Why should we have an article on this person?" Most of the article seems appropriate for a family history website but not for an encyclopedia - he existed, had a family, and so on. I'm not familiar enough with military ranks to know whether being a Brigadier General might be a claim to notability in itself: if so, the lead sentence should be on the lines of "Gustavus A. Smith (1820-18nn) was a Brigadier general of the US Army".

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Proposed deletion of Gustavus A. Smith

The article Gustavus A. Smith has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence of notability - Brigadier General is a one-star rank, main source is family member.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. PamD 06:33, 7 August 2017 (UTC)