Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Burnham (2nd nomination)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) Curbon7 (talk) 17:39, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher Burnham[edit]

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This article contains no third-party sources and, as noted on the Talk page has already been flagged as an autobiography. Does this meet WP:notability? Does it belong in an encyclopedia? Volcom95 (talk) 22:54, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Politicians, and New York. Shellwood (talk) 23:02, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. He was a state legislator which meets WP:POLITICIAN, and various other quite senior things. The concerns raised by OP have to do with content, not notability. Atchom (talk) 00:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There are only two third-party sources in this article -- Washington Post and Hartford Courant -- that indicate that the subject was a politician. Neither source provides any of the detail included in the infobox. The rest is pulled from the website of his investment firm. There is not enough Wikipedia:Reliable sources to support this article remaining on WP. Volcom95 (talk) 01:36, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Why not improve the article instead? Details of US state legislators aren't that hard to find. Atchom (talk) 02:23, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You would think so, but without using material drawn from his investment firm's website, details are few and far between. Seems like it will be something of a tear-down to improve. Volcom95 (talk) 14:01, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Atchom and WP:ARTN. Article content does not determine notability. In addition to his elected service in Connecticut, he has served at a high and presumably verifiable level at major national and international agencies. Sandy267 (talk) 02:20, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and the elected State Treasurer. Easy WP:NPOL pass. --Enos733 (talk) 04:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It passes WP:BASIC and WP:GNG. JoyStick101 (talk) 06:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.