Talk:Mack Garner

A fact from Mack Garner appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 January 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that American jockey Mack Garner was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1969?

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Contested deletion[edit]

This page should not be speedy deleted as an attack or a negative unsourced biography of a living person, because... (he is dead)J. P. L. Gagnon (talk) 20:34, 4 October 2015 (UTC) --J. P. L. Gagnon (talk) 20:34, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Per the horse racing section of WP:NSPORTS, a jockey who wins a race of the caliber of the Kentucky Derby is most likely notable. Definitely a case of WP:DONOTDEMOLISH Montanabw ^(talk) 21:33, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reference[edit]

For article expansion: [1] NE Ent 21:54, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Full name[edit]

His first name was Andrew but I have not yet been able to determine if Mack is his middle name that he went by or was a nickname. Stretchrunner (talk) 11:46, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]