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The result was merge to John F. Rider. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:49, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

John Francis Rider (philatelist)[edit]

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The one source here does not work. My searching for sources in both google and google books turned up no sources that supported Rider having been the subject of multiple instantces of significant coverage from reliable sources. I do not think the award he received is in and of itself enough to justify an article, and I do not think we have enough sourcing to show that he is notable. John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:06, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge/redirect to John F. Rider - I've fixed the archived link, and it affirms his date of birth and date of death. Well, the stamp fanboys got it wrong... This John F. Rider is almost certainly the same person as the John F. Rider radio engineer! How do I know? Rider the radio engineer has the same birthday and year of death. See here. His field of expertise was communications, so it's not a far stretch to assume he had some interest in postal stuff. -Indy beetle (talk) 17:03, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  I agree with a merge. Here's a link to an obituary that mentions that he was a radio pioneer, author and philatelist https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Site-Early-Radio/Call-Letter/IDX/Call-Letter-1985-07-IDX-7.pdf Piecesofuk (talk) 16:37, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Clearly if he is the same as the other John F. Rider we should merge. I figured since one said he was born in "Bristol?" and the other "Hungary" there was no way they were the same. I guess I should trust such unclear birth places less, because that article presented above clearly shows there was only one person who did both radio and stamps.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:12, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/redirect pbp 15:40, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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