Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earl Williamson

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The result was delete. KTC (talk) 20:37, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Earl Williamson[edit]

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Unnotable article created for self-promotion. User:Billy Hathorn, now banned but still active with sock puppets, started this article, which is mainly sourced to one article written by Hathorn in a local history journal (also up for afd Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North Louisiana History (North Louisiana History nomination)). The other sources are from two local obituaries written by the family and a book that isn't available in any library in the world. Earl Williamson fails to meet Wikipedia:Notability (people). It seems like this article was simply one of many articles User:Billy Hathorn created to promote his work, and is one reason the community was annoyed and led to his ban. (See: "Billy Hathorn appears to create a new article for every single obituary or newspaper story he reads" at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Billy Hathorn.) SalHamton (talk) 07:07, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 March 28. Snotbot t • c » 07:19, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:40, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:40, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:40, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as failing WP:POLITICIAN. Being mayor of Vivian, Louisiana is not sufficiently important, even if true, to confer the presumption of notability. Bearian (talk) 20:39, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete, subject has received passing mention in multiple non-primary reliable sources, and a park has been named for the subject in Oil City, Louisiana. That being said, the subject does not appear to have received significant coverage in any of the multiple sources that I can easily view (note some of the sources available are behind a WP:PAYWALL and may have significant coverage of the subject), therefore the subject does not appear to be notable as defined by WP:GNG. An alternative, is that a redirect can be created to Vivian, Louisiana, as I can see it being argued that the subject is locally notable, and a mention of his mayor-ship can be mentioned in the history section, or included in a list of mayors for the community.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:44, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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