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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 03:48, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

George B. Boomer (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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no reference found - unknown notability Melaen (talk) 20:49, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Check G-books. A notable personality, General in the American Civil War. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 21:46, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Existence of a published memoir for an individual of this era indicates a certain historic notability. No positive benefit to the WP project gained by deletion, useful information would be lost. Carrite (talk) 23:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Carrite and Vejvančický's rationales. No references is a common occurrence with new articles. It is always a good idea to check for sources. See WP:Before—Sandahl (talk) 00:57, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:56, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:56, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The rapidity with which this new article was AfD'd is remarkable. I wonder if an edit war of some sort is going on.--S. Rich (talk) 17:11, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and probably WP:SNOW - just check the refs I added with a little bit of effort. AliveFreeHappy (talk) 21:49, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but delete reference to Colonel Boomer being a brevet general. I checked Eicher and Eicher, Civil War High Commands, Hunt and Brown, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue; Warner, Generals in Blue and The War Department's (General Marcus Wright)'s 1906, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861-1865. None of these sources show Colonel Boomer was awarded the rank of brevet brigadier general. Much of the article can be verified in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Civil War,, p. 62 and Smith, Champion Hill Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. Sifakis identifies Boomer as only a colonel. Smith shows "Gen." in the index in connection with Boomer's name but the text clearly identifies him as a colonel. While Colonel Boomer in fact commanded a brigade between February 12 and May 22, 1863, the date of his death, I could find no source that says he was promoted to general or even awarded a brevet rank.Donner60 (talk) 07:48, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• I made the corrections with full citations as stated in the previous comment.Donner60 (talk) 08:25, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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