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Walter E. Hoffman Jr.

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Biography of an airline pilot and operator of smalltown aviation services, "referenced" only to his paid inclusion death notice on the self-published website of a funeral home rather than any evidence of notability-supporting reliable source coverage about him in media. As always, simply owning a business is not an automatic notability freebie that guarantees a person a biographical article just because you can offer technical verification that he existed -- the notability test is the depth and range and volume of journalistic coverage he did or didn't receive about his business career in media, and is not fulfilled by just showing a paid death notice. Bearcat (talk) 22:55, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:55, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:55, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding is that Wally was a well-known local character, and I have included more references in the press and on the web to his airline and his airpark and resort (which first got me interested in this, since I fly over it all the time). dclunie