Talk:William Lee Neal

This article was nominated for deletion on 8 January 2025. The result of the discussion was Withdrawn.

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography

Crime and Criminal Biography: Serial, mass, and spree killers Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of crime and criminal biography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Crime and Criminal BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyCrime-related
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Serial Killer task force (assessed as Low-importance).

United States Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Draftified

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Hi ContributingHelperOnTheSide, I've moved this article back into draftspace so that it can be worked on and improved. I was spending some time looking at it and hoping to do it myself but there is a lot that needs to be done. Some points that should be worked on before it is moved back into mainspace:

Proper inline citations (see Wikipedia:When to cite)
Containing an appropriate amount of details (see WP:DETAIL, WP:TERSE; for examples of appropriate level of detail, consider looking at Vernon Lee Clark, John Eichinger, or John Ewell, or similar articles)
Removal of erroneous content (for example, the article currently says he stole car at age ten. This is false; according to the source in that section, he shoplifted a toy car.)

If you have any questions please let me know. As I stated in the AfD discussion, I do believe that Neal is notable enough to have an article; the article just needs some more work. Perhaps consider using the Wikipedia:Articles for creation for additional feedback. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 01:02, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi User:Liz, I was being WP:BOLD here and draftifying as I was going to try to work on the article and found is has significant problems that need to be addressed - much of the information is entirely uncited or synthesized, and sometimes entirely incorrect. If you don't think draftifying is appropriate, let me know, but the article as exists cannot exist in mainspace and needs to be significantly chopped - pretty much every sentence needs to be individually verified at this point. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 01:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply