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William S. Busby

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Fails WP:NBIO. There are roughly 200 major generals in the U.S. military at any given time, and the rank itself does not automatically confer WP:GNG. WP:NBIO requires SIGCOV in multiple, independent WP:RS (i.e., not connected to the U.S. military), which subject lacks. Coverage is primarily WP:RUNOFTHEMILL announcements, directory-style entries, or routine reporting connected to their official duties. All this falls squarely under WP:ROUTINE. Finally, while leading a WP:MILUNIT can sometimes be a path to notability, not every senior official meets WP:GNG, as is the case here and a similar AfD that resulted in deletion. Longhornsg (talk) 07:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: Kind of an edge case, in my opinion. I found this local news coverage that ticks the independent SIGCOV box. I also found an obituary listing someone of the same name died yesterday (but presumably not him). Given that we can find non-US military sources on the subject and the fact he achieved a rank that placed him in an extremely high position within the US Air Force only shared by a few dozen at a time (fewer than a hundred, to be sure) I'm going with a keep, as I think notability has been established. But I can imagine that other USAF two-stars don't qualify. ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:00, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trey Alexander (soccer)

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Subject fails to meet the WP:GNG because of a lack of WP:SIGCOV. Let'srun (talk) 00:06, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete I support deletion. There seems to be insufficient independent coverage to justify a standalone page as required by SIGCOV. Ismeiri (talk) 07:37, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 22:08, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Waynesboro 5th Street fire

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There were two talk page comments made in 2017. The first one pointed out an apparent error which they fixed, since the opening of the article stated that this happened in Augusta County, Virginia, even though Waynesboro, Virginia is not part of that county.

The user who posted the second comment stated they were from Virginia, and knew a lot about disasters. They suggested the article was a hoax, since they had never heard of it and could not find any sources proving it happened, despite consulting local newspapers and online sources.

The article mentions that hundreds were evacuated, schools were closed, and traffic restrictions were imposed as a result of it. Yet The News Virginian, a newspaper which specifically reported news for this town, does not appear to have mentioned the incident in their newspapers from the time.

The article is linked nowhere else in mainspace and has no sources. RanDom 404 (talk) 04:25, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. I would think that an explosion that killed 11 people in the U.S. in 1984 would at least have been reported by wire services such as the Associated Press and that many U.S. newspapers would at least have carried a paragraph about it in a news roundup. I checked two non-local newspapers and found no mentions of it; by contrast, I did find coverage in those newspapers of the 1981 Louisville sewer explosions which caused injuries but no deaths. I note that this article was created by a user for whom it was their only edit, the article has no sources, and nobody has added any substantive information to the article in the last eight years. If we can't even find a report in the local newspaper, much less non-local newspapers, I am skeptical that this explosion even took place. If it turns out that the fire was real, the article can be re-created with sources. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:57, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Per lack of WP:SUSTAINED coverage. Svartner (talk) 08:31, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Concur with @Metropolitan90 - delete due to lack of sourcing Andrew Gray (talk) 17:59, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as hoax I couldn't find anything on newspapers.com either. Reywas92^Talk 03:45, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'm also pretty certain this is a hoax. I couldn't find any mentions of Jody Sanders, who is quoted in the article, being the Waynesboro deputy fire marshal in 1984, but he certainly was when this article was written in 2017, e.g. in this news story. (Oddly, 215 5th Street is also an American Legion location... but this article was written before that fire.) Adam Sampson (talk) 11:07, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Adam's source is from the Public Opinion of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and describes a fire in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, not the Virginia city which are three hours down Interstate 81 for each other, so I think this is a hoax article that's easily fallen apart under scrutiny using figures from PA to represent something that didn't happen in VA. The coordinates shown in the article show the alleged point of the explosion in front of a 60s era building that has no damage to speak of and time-worn, but undamaged sidewalks that certainly date to that era, along with an equally undamaged older home on the other side of the street that would've certainly been kingdom come'ed if the explosion did happen. Nathannah • 📮 22:09, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chandler Vaughn

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Subject fails to meet the WP:GNG because of a lack of WP:SIGCOV. The best I could find was [[1]] which is a routine announcement of being drafted. Let'srun (talk) 14:14, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to 2022 MLS SuperDraft#Round 3 – As WP:ATD. Svartner (talk) 16:57, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Redirect as above. Giant Snowman 20:19, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2022 MLS SuperDraft: No evidence of WP:SIGCOV. Fails WP:GNG. Demt1298 (talk) 03:50, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect- to 2022 MLS SuperDraft#Round 3 as an ATD, additional searches show lack of SIGCOV sources to suggest standalone notability.Lorraine Crane (talk) 20:42, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

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Fails WP:BRANCH of WP:NORG. Coverage is WP:ROUTINE of press releases and local activities expected of an advocacy organization. Longhornsg (talk) 22:44, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. The organization has WP:SIGCOV in the annual American Jewish Yearbook series which has been published for decades by Springer Publishing. It gets covered in that every year. This book highlights the group as a significant branch because of its strategic location in Washington D.C. which gives it influence in pushing Israel's agenda in the United States. It has an outsized impact on American politics because of where it is located. Here is a smattering of other materials [2], [3], [4], The group is also listed as funding groups criticized by the pro-Palestinian movement ([5]); so it's has its critics. Its activities get covered repeatedly in The Washington Post so just looking at that paper's archives alone there is WP:ORGCRIT passing coverage.4meter4 (talk) 23:21, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We need significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. These are all WP:PASSING mentions that fail to establish WP:ORGDEPTH. Let's take them individually:

1. The American Jewish Yearbook is a comprehensive listing of the hundreds of Jewish organizations in operation. Inclusion is not inherently significant. Fails SIRS.

2. The book is self-published polemic by an author at a non-notable advocacy shop (not even a think tank). Across 330 pages, the federation merits a mere two paragraphs, half of which is a direct quote from the federation's own annual report. Not an RS and not SIGCOV. Fails SIRS.

3. A self-published list of Zionist organizations by the the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, a fringe network of a few dozen people is not SIGCOV, nor is it an RS. Fails SIRS.

4. [This https://archive.org/details/BusinessOfBacklashWebFinal/page/n59/mode/2up?q=%22Jewish+Federation+of+Greater+Washington%22] is a self-published list of hundreds of perceived Zionist organizations. The federation is listed as one of many grantees of some of them. No SIGCOV and not an RS. Fails SIRS.

Any tangentially relevant content can be added as a section at Jewish federations. Per WP:BRANCH, a specific local chapter or sub-organization that is not considered notable enough for its own article may be significant enough to mention within the context of an article about the parent organization. Longhornsg (talk) 00:36, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If deletion is decided upon, the link should be redirected to the main article on the Jewish Federations of North America. Every branch of the Federations should be listed on the main page. As of now, they are not listed. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 15:15, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bohemian Baltimore do you have a vote? Longhornsg (talk) 01:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge - outright deletion will feed the nanobs. Please don't make me verklempt. Bearian (talk) 04:44, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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King Abdullah Academy

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9-year old stub about a shuttered K-12 academy in Virginia. Fails WP:ORG; only RS sourcing describes opening (2016) and closing (2025). Remainder of article is WP:PROMO. Tioaeu8943 (talk) 20:18, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: This was the original revision back in 2016. There should be no promo in that revision. Anyhow, I'm going to see if any NOVA newspapers reported on the closing. If any in-depth articles do so, notability would be assured. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:42, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Found two published sources:

Nomani, Samir Ali (2025-06-20). "FCPS acquires King Abdullah Academy". Fairfax Times. - It talks more about the building after the closure, but it explains why FCPS wanted the site. This analysis is important.
Roth, Maggie (2025-06-17). "FCPS Approves $150M Purchase of King Abdullah Academy Private School in Herndon". Northern Virginia Magazine. - This explains that FCPS got the King Abdullah site because it would not take much work to change it into a public school.

There are other sources I found about FCPS acquiring the former campus. I'm looking for secondary source coverage about the school itself when it was in operation.

WhisperToMe (talk) 20:49, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Saudi private school in Herndon to shut down, surprising families" can provide commentary on the closing, but I'd like to look into the reliability of Local News Now LLC (FFX Now) as I am not sure what the fact checking procedures are like in that news outlet. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:10, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings @WhisperToMe - I gather that you created the article. Those additional items only mention the school in WP:PASSING. Tioaeu8943 (talk) 18:05, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I started the article back in 2016 (when senior high schools were automatically counted as notable), though other users added to it and changed it. There is a question on whether the future usage of the closed school building count as substantial coverage of this school: the school facility itself would be a component of the article, and FCPS intentionally picked the this particular closed school to build a new one.

Example from "FCPS acquires King Abdullah Academy": "Dunne was researching the school facilities issue in mid-February and was surprised to see King Abdullah Academy close. “It had many amenities that you don’t find in other high schools in Fairfax County,” said Dunne. It has an indoor heated Olympic-sized swimming pool and three gymnasiums.[...]Harnessing the $280 million saved from the acquisition of King Abdullah Academy, Dunne said that that money can be used to accelerate the renovation of other schools across the county, without depending too heavily on school bonds."

I argue this is not trivial coverage, as the article explains why the board of trustees wanted this particular school. It would of course be much better to find sourced coverage about the school as it operated, as it would be a fuller, richer article.

WhisperToMe (talk) 21:15, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, but unfortunately, such coverage does not seem to exist. To my reading, what you found better supports an article on FCPS than the closed academy. Tioaeu8943 (talk) 18:20, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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~~Keep~~ Merge to Islamic Saudi Academy. The Washington Post source from 2015 states The Islamic Saudi Academy has operated inside the former Mount Vernon High School since 1985. It plans to move next year to a school being built about 35 miles away, the article should be about this Islamic Saudi Academy, with 2015–2024 being just a period. In this wider scope the school was covered by the NBC in 2007 ‘Terror High’ administrators defend school, the NPR in 2010, Virginia Islamic School's Expansion Met Protests and by the Freedom House in 2006, SAUDI ARABIA’S CURRICULUM OF INTOLERANCE With Excerpts from Saudi Ministry of Education Textbooks for Islamic Studies Kelob2678 (talk) 19:43, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@Kelob2678: If reliable sources deem King Abdullah Academy to be the same school as Islamic Saudi Academy, do you think a merge to Islamic Saudi Academy would work? WhisperToMe (talk) 04:36, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@WhisperToMe: I am fine with the merge. A quote from ffxnow that reported on its closure, The school was previously known as the Islamic Saudi Academy.[6] Kelob2678 (talk) 08:44, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge based on published sources identifying King Abdullah Academy as de facto the same school as Islamic Saudi Academy. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:26, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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