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The result was delete. Jamie^☆S93 00:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas E. Locke[edit]

Don't believe this individual meets the notability requirements. The only coverage is local newspapers, I can't get any ghits that look relevant, and his only claim to fame seems to have been not playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers; he was president of a now-defunct bank and that's about it. The article before I nominated it here read like an obituary, which Wikipedia is not. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 06:25, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per, well, the nom. If kept, I would really like to see the obituary that most of this article is sourced to after reading through another one of the creator's articles, Oliver C. Thomas, and the main source (an obituary in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) and finding a substantial amount of plagiarism. —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 06:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like this is the obituary and this is the memorial notice. I tried a couple of database searches on the guy, and the only material I got was editorial letters written by a "Thomas E. Locke" in The Daily News of Los Angeles. This man's from Texas, though, so probably a different person. Shubinator (talk) 14:44, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Being a "prominent banker" at the municipal level isn't noteworthy. Hairhorn (talk) 15:07, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, Hairhorn. — Bellhalla (talk) 11:30, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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