Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Whitman (New Jersey)

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The result was keep. PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 02:10, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Whitman (New Jersey)[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:INHERIT. Whitman was married to a Governor but that is not a notable position. TM

Keep. I'm currently having trouble inserting references in the proper format and tried to insert the following two pertinent citations into the article in order to bolster his notability. From Lexis-Nexis Academic database:

Hudson, Audrey. EPA moves to confiscate files in probe of Whitman's husband, Washington Times, April 18, 2002, p. A04

Hudson, Audrey. Investigator for EPA sues Whitman over job; says action on position is personal., Washington Times, January 11, 2002, p. A1

Both of these articles mention Mr. Whitman and his roles in various notable financial organizations (including Citigroup), as well as potential conflicts of interest caused by his marriage to Ms. Whitman. Broader searches do turn up about 10 more articles on the same subject, most of them in the Washington Times. Article needs to have these included, but until I can get my tech problem ironed out am putting them here as evidence of notability. Feel free to disagree. This is not something I would go to the mat for. --Quartermaster (talk) 14:22, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep especially if someone beefing it up. CarolMooreDC (talk) 19:48, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Merge to Christine Todd Whitman. The coverage above, and such others as turn up on a casual Gnews search, mentions him only trivially in the context of his wife's political career. Based on what I see now, I conclude subject fails WP:GNG. Ray^Talk 21:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Christine Todd Whitman. Only seems to be notable due to this connection, and notability is not inherited.--Yaksar (let's chat) 20:04, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I have expanded this article and added a number of references, but have not yet done all that can be done with this subject. There are a lot more sources available that I have not had the time to incorporate into the article. Subject clearly meets the GNG on his own without being the husband of one governor and the grandson of another. Jim Miller ^{See me | Touch me} 15:30, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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