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Speedy deletion nomination of Harry Welch

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Harry Welch requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Notability

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Your article about Harry Welch describes a football coach whose career peaked with one year as head coach at Los Angeles Valley College, a community college with a minor football presence. The rest of his career appears to have been with various high school teams around Southern California. This does not appear to meet the criteria for inclusion for athletes. Since your article cites no sources (and seems to be lacking in some basic details), it is likely to be deleted on either notability grounds, or as an unreferenced biography of a living person. I would suggest you take steps to indicate in the article how this person is notable, with citations to reliable sources, or the article will soon face deletion. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:31, 19 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Replaceable fair use File:Portrait photograph of Harry Edward Welch, Jr.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Portrait photograph of Harry Edward Welch, Jr.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that this media item is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails the first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media item could be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media item is not replaceable, please:

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